Life and Career
Charles-Émile Trudeau was born in Saint-Michel-de-Napierville, Quebec, the son of Marie-Malvina Cardinal (1849–1931) and Joseph Trudeau (1848–1919), a Quebec farmer. He married Grace Elliott, the daughter of a prominent entrepreneur, Phillip-Armstrong Elliott (1859-1936), and his wife Sarah-Rebecca Sauve (1857-1899), and had four children. Charles-Émile Trudeau was considered gregarious, boisterous and extravagant.
Charles-Émile Trudeau, a lawyer by training, accumulated a fortune by building a number of gas stations around the Montreal area. Among his investments, Trudeau had interests in mining companies and was a shareholder and a member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Royals baseball team. He also had a financial interest in Montreal's Belmont Park.
He died in 1935 in Orlando, Florida. Due to Charles Trudeau's business, Pierre Trudeau himself inherited wealth. Charles Trudeau also served as a more personal inspiration to the Prime Minister. As Jim Coutts, Pierre Trudeau's aide, recalled, Pierre Trudeau "talked, at times, of his father, whom he greatly admired, but who was too busy to understand his son's interests or spend much time with him."
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