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  Margaret Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Sinclair Trudeau Kemper (born September 10, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is the former wife of the late Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
Margaret resented her husband's constant work-related absences and was forced to raise her three young sons largely by herself.
Margaret Trudeau is a lover of the poetry of the venerable English poet, William Blake.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Trudeau   (847 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trudeau was persuaded to run for the Liberal leadership and ran an energetic campaign that mobilized and inspired many youths who had been influenced by the 1960s counterculture and saw Trudeau as a signfier of generational change.
Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader; however, before a leadership convention could be held Clark's government was defeated in the Canadian House of Commons by a Motion of No Confidence and the party persuaded Trudeau to stay on as leader and fight the election.
Trudeau's final term in office was signficant for the defeat of the first Quebec referendum on independence (called by Parti Québécois premier René Lévesque) and Trudeau's successful attempts to repatriate the Canadian constitution and add a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is his most enduring legacy.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /p/pi/pierre_trudeau.html   (3071 words)

  
 Alexandre Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau (born Christmas Day, 1973) is a Canadian journalist, and the son of former Prime Minister, the late Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau.
Trudeau is also a director of Canada World Youth, and of the Trudeau Foundation for excellence in social sciences and humanities research and innovation.
Trudeau offered to be a surety for Hassan Almrei, a Syrian refugee held in a Canadian jail for four years without any charges being laid ([[1]]).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexandre_Trudeau   (422 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pierre Philippe Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 - September 28, 2000) was the fifteenth prime minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 3, 1979 and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Pierre Trudeau was a flamboyant, charismatic, controversial intellectual.
Trudeau's policies were considered to be biased toward Ontario and Quebec, and left out Alberta and British Columbia.
usapedia.com /p/pierre-trudeau.html   (980 words)

  
 Trudeau's procession arrives in Montreal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trudeau died Thursday at age 80, and the country has since been wrapped up in remembering his political legacy and flamboyant lifestyle.
Margaret Trudeau came to view the flame shortly after Trudeau’s coffin was taken away.
Trudeau was prime minister from 1968 to 1984, with a brief break in 1979 after an election loss.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2000/10_2000/100320001.htm   (392 words)

  
 Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Pierre Trudeau, 1919 - 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trudeau recognized Communist China long before the new nation was acknowledged by the U.S., maintained peaceful relations with Cuba, and discouraged war by means as diverse as welcoming "Draft Dodgers" to lobbying for global nuclear disarmament.
The couple had 3 sons, but the union was nearly the end of Trudeau's political career: Margaret Trudeau reveled in her position as the wife of the "Pop Prime Minister" as well as the freedoms of the 70s era and indulged rather than restrained her youthful bohemian impulses.
Trudeau avoided the spotlight after he retired from politics, and was often seen walking to his law office or with his sons.
obits.com /trudeau.html   (1350 words)

  
 Justin Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Justin Trudeau (born Christmas Day, 1971 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is the eldest son of the late former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and Trudeau's first wife, Margaret.
However, Trudeau insisted that he had chosen education because he was passionate about teaching and being a positive role model for youth, and that the political life was not his goal.
The younger Trudeau and Mulroney were friends despite their fathers being bitter political enemies over the Meech Lake Accord.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Justin_Trudeau   (480 words)

  
 CNEWS Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trudeau was born Oct. 18, 1919, into a Montreal family whose wealth afforded him a good education and the chance to travel the world while contemporaries were settling into careers and families.
Trudeau graduated with honours in law from the University of Montreal and was called to the bar in 1944.
Margaret Trudeau had stayed on the sidelines in the first years after their 1971 marriage, before emerging as a happy and effective campaigner in the 1974 election.
www.canoe.ca /CNEWSPolitics/trudeau_pierre.html   (3401 words)

  
 Madame Trudeau
Margaret (Marguerite) Theresa Robertson Wright, Texas pioneer and patriot, was born in New Orleans in 1789, reputedly of a French mother and an English father.
Margaret Wright died in Victoria on October 21, 1878, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Margaret Wright also alleged that without her knowledge John David Wright had laid claim to the headright she had originally settled, and that in fact a Mexican grant to the land had been issued in his name on Oct. 16, 1831.
www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/trudeaumadame.htm   (2071 words)

  
 Trudeaus remember Michel and promote avalanche awareness
Margaret and Justin Trudeau told TV host Vicki Gabereau that they didn't want searchers to find Michel, who was 23 when an avalanche swept him into the lake during a ski trip.
Margaret Trudeau looks at her son Justin as he talks about his brother Michael killed in an avalance in B.C., during a break in the taping of a TV show in Vancouver (CP PHOTO/Chuck Stoody)
Margaret said Michel, an experienced outdoorsman who was wearing safety equipment at the time of the accident, knew of the danger.
www.canoe.ca /AllAboutCanoesNewsJan00/000114_av.html   (724 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trudeau's given names thus captured the bilingual, bicultural personality of Canada, the federalism the man dedicated his political life to preserving and enhancing.
Trudeau and two friends, Jean Marchand and Gerard Pelletier, were invited to run in the federal election that year.
Trudeau could have been the model for what McLuhan meant when he coined the phrase "the medium is the message." It wasn't what the man said, but how he said it — style over substance.
www.canadahistory.com /sections/politics/Pierre_Trudeau.htm   (1218 words)

  
 The Globe and Mail: Series
Trudeau's body is “like that of a 25-year-old.” She also discusses their fondness for garter belts and the effect her nipples have on state visitors.
Trudeau goes on national television to announce that $2-billion will be cut from Government spending and that, because he is “fed up” with the mail service, he is turning the Post Office into a Crown corporation.
Trudeau announces that one of his former ministers, Jeanne Sauve, is to be the next Speaker of the House of Commons - the first woman ever to hold the job.
images.theglobeandmail.com /series/trudeau/trudeau01.html   (3420 words)

  
 CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Top Ten Greatest Canadians - Pierre Trudeau - Did You Know
Trudeau was skinny as a child, but made up for it later in life by becoming very athletic.
Trudeau enjoyed taking lengthy, treacherous canoe trips in northern Quebec and once remarked "Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal." Trudeau was posthumously given the Bill Mason Award for outstanding contributions to canoeing heritage.
It is rumoured that during an argument, the always-passionate Margaret Trudeau attempted to tear the quilt from the wall.
www.cbc.ca /greatest/top_ten/nominee/trudeau-pierre-know.html   (671 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Margaret Trudeau's driving case thrown out
Margaret Trudeau leaves the Ottawa courthouse following her appearance on a charge of driving while over the legal limit, in Ottawa on Oct 21, 2005.
Trudeau, whose 1970s escapades with the Rolling Stones and at New York's Studio 54 helped earn her notoriety in Canada and abroad, registered a blood-alcohol level of 107 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.
At the station, Trudeau was kept in a locked room with a phone on which she could not call out.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051122/trudeau_case_051122/20051122?hub=Canada   (596 words)

  
 Margaret Trudeau, Bryan Adams kick off avalanche awareness fundraiser
Michel Trudeau, the youngest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Kemper Trudeau, was 23 when he was swept into a glacial lake in an avalanche in Kokanee Glacier provincial park.
Trudeau said Tuesday that she and her late husband taught all three of their sons to ski and they loved the sport.
Margaret Trudeau said in a newspaper interview last month that the former prime minister was certain Michel was waiting for him in the afterlife and refused anything - even a sip of water - which might have postponed his death.
www.bryanadams.nu /reviews/r123.htm   (657 words)

  
 FBI Spied on Canada's Pierre Trudeau for 30 Years
Trudeau's years as an activist, key events and issues of his early political career, threats made against his life, security arrangements for visits to the U.S. and even the 1974 loss of then-wife Margaret's pocketbook.
Trudeau's March 1969 visit to Washington, State Department officials asked the FBI for information on suspected members of Cuban Power, a group that had carried out terrorist attacks against Canadian establishments in the U.S. A 1972 memo originating in Mexico noted a news article about Mr.
Trudeau was the subject of at least four death threats in the early 1980s, originating in Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles and Savannah, Georgia, respectively.
www.commondreams.org /headlines01/0120-03.htm   (980 words)

  
 The Globe and Mail: Series
Trudeau, the former wife of Pierre Trudeau and mother of their three children, had walked down to the Centennial Flame at the foot of Parliament Hill.
Trudeau inspected some of the notes of condolence attached to the bouquets and warmly accepted the sympathies of people in the crowd.
Trudeau said the reminder of her son -- coming on top of an emotional ceremony for her ex-husband -- had simply been too much.
www.theglobeandmail.com /series/trudeau/michel.html   (468 words)

  
 AETV.com Classroom Study Guides
Clearly, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was a man who walked his own path and held true to his own principles.
Trudeau came from a family that had wealth and social standing.
When Trudeau was appointed Justice Minister by then Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, he brought in a series of judicial reforms.
www.aetv.com /class/admin/study_guide/archives/aetv_guide.0617.html   (584 words)

  
 CBC Ottawa - Charter defeats case against Margaret Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Margaret Trudeau gave credit to her former husband, the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau, on Tuesday after a judge ruled her rights had been violated and threw out alcohol-related charges against her.
Margaret Trudeau remarried, but is now divorced from her second husband, real-estate developer Fried Kemper.
After Margaret Kemper was pulled over 18 months ago, a breathalyzer test revealed her blood-alcohol level was 107 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, the court was told.
www.cbc.ca /ottawa/story/ot-maggie20051122.html   (354 words)

  
 CM Magazine: Pierre Elliot Trudeau.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sauerwein traces Trudeau's quick rise in the ranks of the Pearson government and the resulting "Trudeaumania." The highs and lows of his prime ministerial career, such as the Official Languages Act, October Crisis, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, are outlined.
Trudeau's flaws are also discussed, including his ego, penchant for sarcastic comments, and his stormy relationship with Margaret Trudeau.
Only four fl and white photographs are included: the 1967 Pearson Cabinet with Trudeau, John Turner, and Jean Chretien; Trudeau signing autographs at the height of Trudeaumania; Margaret Trudeau; and Queen Elizabeth II signing the Constitution.
www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol11/no13/pierreelliottrudeau.html   (387 words)

  
 Celebrities & Interesting People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Margaret Trudeau urged Canadians to pray for him during a severe bout of pneumonia and she rushed to his side during an illness.
"Margaret was a real personality in her own right and in a sense kind of rivalled him (Trudeau) in terms of the fascination the public had for her," recalled Peter Desbarats, who worked in Ottawa for both the Toronto Star and Global TV throughout the 1970s.
In 1977, Margaret Trudeau left her marriage and the couple's three young sons, feeling unappreciated by her husband and tired of the lack of privacy and loss of individuality she attributed to her role as the wife of a prime minister.
www.irinasworld.com /celebrity3.html   (1419 words)

  
 Plea to ensure water is treated with respect | The Record.com
Margaret Trudeau was a guest speaker at Wilfrid Laurier University yesterday to talk about the role of the public person in community service.
Trudeau -- the former wife of Canada's 15th prime minister, Pierre Trudeau -- is the honorary president of WaterCan, a Canadian charitable organization that builds drinking water and sanitation systems in some of the world's poorest regions.
Trudeau recalled that one villager was asked what the biggest difference was now that the village had a well.
www.therecord.com /links/links_06031591431.html   (493 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Margaret Trudeau speaks about ex-PM's last days
During the interview, Margaret Trudeau commented on some of the photos chronicling her time with Pierre Trudeau.
Margaret Trudeau also showed off a collage she made to commemorate the ex-prime minister's funeral.
Margaret was married to Pierre in the 1970s.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1025814605700_21223805   (320 words)

  
 CBC News: Charter arguments defeat case against Margaret Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Margaret Trudeau gave credit to her former husband Tuesday after a judge ruled her rights were violated and threw out alcohol-related charges against her.
Telling reporters she was relieved by the decision, Trudeau praised the role her ex-husband, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, played in creating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
After Margaret Trudeau was pulled over 18 months ago, police said a breathalyzer test revealed her blood-alcohol level was 107 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/11/22/trudeau051122.html   (359 words)

  
 Margaret Trudeau: Former 1st Lady of Canada
In 1971, at age 22, Margaret Trudeau became the youngest First Lady in the world.
Margaret Trudeau went on to become a photographer, actress, writer and television host.
Margaret Trudeau has attracted more publicity and more criticism than any woman in Canadian history.
www.speakers.ca /trudeau_margaret.aspx   (185 words)

  
 Cuba News / Miami Herald - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
From 1976 onward, Trudeau and Castro maintained a strong friendship that observers say was based on an intellectual bond.
Castro acted as an honorary pallbearer for the Trudeau family on Tuesday, and sat directly behind Margaret Trudeau throughout the service in Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica.
Outside, he embraced a teary-eyed Margaret Trudeau and her two sons, Justin and Sacha.
www.cubanet.org /CNews/y00/oct00/05e5.htm   (957 words)

  
 Robert Fulford's column about the CBC miniseries Trudeau
He was astonished to discover that a woman barely old enough to vote was wretched when moved into an environment where everyone was a generation older, most were hopelessly boring and many had a habit of speaking French, a foreign language to her.
They ignored Trudeau's incompetence in finance, his capricious inability to stick with a subject (such as the Third World) even after announcing it was the most important topic on Earth, and his affection for despots like Fidel Castro.
Trudeau the film was more nostalgia than drama or history; its main effect was to spread the hazy impression (rarely heard in the 1970s) that Pierre Trudeau was a unique and inspiring leader, on a much higher level than any other mortal of his day or ours.
www.robertfulford.com /TrudeauMiniseries.html   (1144 words)

  
 Ex-wife of Trudeau avoids trial - Americas - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
OTTAWA - Margaret Trudeau, the ex-wife of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, had her drunken driving charge thrown out of court by a judge on Tuesday.
Trudeau, whose 1970s escapades with the Rolling Stones and at New York's Studio 54 helped earn her notoriety in Canada and abroad, registered a blood-alcohol level of 107 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood.
According to the judge Archibald also denied Trudeau access to her counsel of choice when he neither left a message nor gave her the option to leave a message when he called the first two lawyers she requested at the Ottawa police station.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7279844/did/10157026   (298 words)

  
 Canadian Association of Journalists — Media Magazine
During an interview about the exhibit that aired on TV Ontario this past January, Margaret Trudeau was quoted as saying that her ex-husband's "life celebrated in photographs is a sentimental journey that is full of sad and sweet memories, showing his career and family.
I had the good fortune to be asked by Margaret Trudeau in 1974 to give her photography lessons.
The photos of Trudeau and his family were used around the world by publications that subscribed to United Press International of Canada Ltd (UPI), my employer at the time.
www.eagle.ca /caj/mediamag/spring2001/photojournalism.html   (637 words)

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