# Rodolphe Forget

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1. Elected for Charlevoix and for Montmorency. Sat for both ridings.

Colonel **Sir Joseph David Rodolphe Forget** (December 10, 1861 – February 19, 1919) was a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) business investor, [stockbroker](/source/Stockbroker), and [politician](/source/Politician). He held national directorships and had major investments in [energy](/source/Energy) companies, as well as industrial concerns and [railway](/source/Railway) companies in the [Provinces](/source/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada) of [Quebec](/source/Quebec) and [Ontario](/source/Ontario). He was one of the few [French Canadian](/source/French_Canadian) [business magnates](/source/Business_magnate) of his time.[1]

## Life and career

Born in [Terrebonne](/source/Terrebonne,_Quebec) in what was then known as [Canada East](/source/Canada_East), he was the only son of David Rodolphe Forget, a [lawyer](/source/Lawyer) at Terrebonne who was the brother of the Hon. [Louis-Joseph Forget](/source/Louis-Joseph_Forget). His mother, Angele Limoges, was the half-sister of [Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon](/source/Louis-Olivier_Taillon), 8th [Prime Minister of Quebec](/source/Premier_of_Quebec). The Forgets were long settled in Quebec, having moved there from [Normandy](/source/Normandy) in 1650.

Forget became one of the most influential and controversial businessmen of his era in Quebec. With wide-ranging business interests, one of his companies built the [Manoir Richelieu](/source/Manoir_Richelieu) hotel in 1899 at [La Malbaie, Quebec](/source/La_Malbaie,_Quebec).

During the early 1900s, Rodolphe Forget with his uncle Louis-Joseph Forget and Forget family investments controlled the very important [Montreal Light, Heat & Power Company](/source/Montreal_Light,_Heat_%26_Power). Rodolphe Forget also served as chairman of the [Board of Directors](/source/Board_of_Directors) of the [Montreal Stock Exchange](/source/Montreal_Stock_Exchange) from 1907 to 1909.

In 1904, Forget was elected as a [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(historical)) to the [10th Canadian Parliament](/source/10th_Canadian_Parliament) for the [Charlevoix riding](/source/Charlevoix_(federal_electoral_district)), and he served for more than thirteen years. He was the father of [Thérèse Casgrain](/source/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Casgrain) and father-in-law of [Pierre-François Casgrain](/source/Pierre-Fran%C3%A7ois_Casgrain), who was elected as a Liberal MP in Charlevoix in 1917.

Forget died in 1919 at the age of fifty-seven and was buried in the [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) [Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges](/source/Cimeti%C3%A8re_Notre-Dame-des-Neiges) in Montreal. His home in Montreal's [Golden Square Mile](/source/Golden_Square_Mile) still stands today and is one of the buildings that are used by the Russian Consulate. His estate in Charlevoix is now part of [Domaine Forget](/source/Domaine_Forget).

## References

1. Harvey, Christian. ["The Domaine Forget in Charlevoix"](http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/article-607/The_Domaine_Forget_in_Charlevoix.html). Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française.

- Jedwab, Jack. ["Forget, Sir Rodolphe (baptized Joseph-David-Rodolphe)"](https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/forget_rodolphe_14E.html). Vol. 14.

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