Peter Trent, Date of Birth

    

Peter Trent

English-Canadian businessman and politician

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1946

Profession: teacher, politician, business magnate

Nationality: Canada, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Peter Trent

  • Peter Francis Trent, (born 5 January 1946) is an English-born Canadian businessman and politician.
  • He was mayor of Westmount, Quebec until his retirement in April 2017.
  • He was first elected as councillor in 1983.
  • He served as mayor from 1992 to 2001, he left politics at that time due to the forced merger with the City of Montreal.
  • He again became Mayor of Westmount by acclamation on 1 November 2009 municipal election.Born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, Trent and his family immigrated to Toronto when he was 10.
  • In 1968, at the age of 22 he left McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario to work for a chemical company in Montreal.
  • In 1972, he started his own company (with Raymond Charlebois), PBI/Plastibeton Inc.
  • which he would later sell in 1989 to Shell Oil and Lone Star Industries.
  • From 1982 to 1983, he taught Marketing at Concordia University's Faculty of Commerce and Administration.
  • In 1992, he received a medal marking the 125th anniversary of Canada.
  • In 1994 he was named honorary lieutenant colonel of the Royal Montreal Regiment, and in 1999 honorary colonel.
  • In 2005 he received the decoration of the Canadian Forces.After the 2002 mergers, Trent resigned from office.
  • He fought for three years for de-mergers as a non-elected official before retiring from politics.
  • He eventually returned to politics and was elected mayor of Westmount in 2009.
  • He retired from the mayor's position in April 2017.He owns the licences to many worldwide patents, which supplies him with a significant revenue stream, and this has allowed Trent to devote himself to public service. Trent's book about the merger-demerger period in Montreal, The Merger Delusion was published in the fall of 2012 by McGill-Queen's University Press.
  • The book was shortlisted for the 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
  • He planned to present ideas in the last book that would be the foundation for a debate starting in 2013 about governing the Montreal region.
  • In 2018, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.

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