Andre Chagnon, a Quebec businessman who founded telecommunications big Videotron and afterwards set up one particular of the major loved ones foundations in the state, has died.

In a assertion, his spouse and children said Chagnon passed absent early Saturday at the age of 94, surrounded by cherished ones.

The Montreal-born Chagnon, an electrician by trade, was the founder of Videotron in 1964, the Quebec cable television business that would turn out to be a person of the greatest telecommunications companies in Canada.

Videotron was later obtained by Quebecor Media Inc. in 2000, with Chagnon and his widow, Lucie, in turn placing up the Lucie and Andre Chagnon Foundation with a aim of blocking poverty.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault paid out tribute to Chagnon as a outstanding and visionary person and an individual he experienced consulted a lot of situations during his political occupation.

Legault said on Twitter that in founding Videotron, Chagnon formed contemporary Quebec and highlighted his fantastic endeavours to reduce poverty via the family members foundation.

This report by The Canadian Push was first revealed on Oct. 8, 2022.