Gaston L'Heureux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian actor and television presenter
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Place of Birth: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
About Gaston L'Heureux
- Gaston L'Heureux (May 14, 1943 – January 9, 2011) was a Canadian journalist and television host. L'Heureux was born in 1943 in Quebec City, Quebec and worked for the local newspaper Le Soleil in the early 1960s before becoming a freelance radio journalist.
- He hosted his first television program, Au masculin, in the early 1970s.
- After working for Télé-Québec and other outlets over the next decade, he moved to Radio-Canada in the 1980s and attained his greatest fame as the host of the popular program, Avis de recherche.
- His last regular involvement with a television program was in 2001, when he co-hosted series entitled, Josée, Gaston et cie.
- In addition to his career in media, L'Heureux was a prominent Quebec nationalist, serving for many years with the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Montreal.L'Heureux was left partly paralyzed by a serious automobile accident in 2007; after this time, he became a spokesperson for several organizations that provide services to persons with mobility issues.
- He died in hospital in January 2011, and several leading Quebec politicians, including Jean Charest and Gilles Duceppe, were among those who paid him tribute.
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