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An albino, he was born in East Angus in the Estrie (Eastern Townships) region of Quebec to parents who sent him to boarding school at age 7, determined that he should receive the education which they lacked.
Beginning in the early 1960s he supported Quebec sovereignty, and in 1964 he became leader of the pro-independence Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale, which he had helped found in 1960. In 1968 he disbanded the RIN and invited its members to join René Lévesque's Mouvement Souveraineté-Association and the Ralliement national in the newly founded Parti QuébécoisParti Quebecois Current Leader Bernard Landry Founded October 11, 1968 Headquarters 1200 Papineau Avenue, bureau 150 Montreal, QuebecH2K 4R5(514) 526-0020 & 1-800-363-9531[mailto:info@pq. org info@pq. org] Colours Blue (also White & Red) Political ideolog, under Lévesque's leadership. However, Bourgault himself did not play any role in the PQ government that came to power in the 1976 Quebec election and often quarreled with Lévesque before leaving the PQ in the 1980s. In effect he sacrificed his own political career to unite pro-sovereignty forces.
In his early life he was a journalist at MontrealMontreal (/mVn. tri"Al/ in English, /mO~. re"al/ in French) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, Canada, where it also constitutes an administrative region. It is Canada's second most populous city after Toronto ( Statistics Canada), and the sec newspaper La Presse, and he returned to this in the 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn as a columnist for Le Journal de Montréal. After 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s he was a professor of communications at the Université du Québec à MontréalUQAM's urban campus in Montreal's Quartier Latin Motto None Founded 1969 School type Public Rector Roch Denis Location Montreal, Quebec Enrollment 34,355 undergrad, 6,269 grad, 1,633 others Campus surroundings Urban Campus size Sports teams Citadins Masco (UQAM). He was also the co-host or regular columnist of several radio shows aired on la Société Radio-Canada, the French language sector of the CBCCBC redirects here, as this is the most common use of the abbreviation. For other uses, see CBC (disambiguation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation commonly known by the abbreviation CBC is Canada's government-owned television network and radio network..
He was non-religious to the point of atheism, and despite their political differences had a solid friendship with Robert Bourassa. An ardent defender of the French language, he received the Prix Georges-Émile-Lapalme in 1997.
He once estimated that he had given 4000 speeches in his life, which are however mostly lost to posterity since he did not write them down.