Born in
Terrebonne,
Canada East, he was a
stockbroker and then founded his own
brokerage firm,
L. J. Forget et Compagnie, in 1876. One of the wealthiest
French Canadians in Montreal, he was chairman of the
Montreal Stock Exchange in 1895 and 1896. He was president of the
Montreal Street Railway Company and helped the company switch from horse cars to electric tramways. In 1904, he was the first French Canadian to be appointed to the board of directors of the
Canadian Pacific Railway. His nephew
Rodolphe Forget joined his company and became one of the most important businessmen in the Province of Quebec and an elected member of the
House of Commons of Canada. Louis-Joseph Forget was appointed to the
Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of Sorel, Quebec in 1896. A
Conservative, he served until his death. His great-niece is
Thérèse Forget Casgrain, a feminist, reformer, politician and senator. His home still survives today in Montreal's
Golden Square Mile. He died in
Nice,
France in 1911 and is buried in the
Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery. ==References==