Georges Anglade


Georges Anglade was a Haitian–Canadian geographer, writer and politician. A strong opponent of the Duvalier régime in Haiti, Anglade was imprisoned for political reasons in 1974 and fled the country upon release. In 1991, after the coup against Aristide he had to leave the country for a second time.
Anglade was born in Port-au-Prince, where he attended the École normale supérieure and the law faculty. He spent much of his adult life in exile in Quebec, where he was instrumental in founding the Department of Geography at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Death

Anglade was killed alongside his wife, Mireille Neptune Anglade, a woman's rights activist, in the 2010 Haiti earthquake. They were at the home of prominent economist Phillipe Rouzier and his wife, Marilyse Rouzier's, when the house collapsed. Rouzier was also killed. Mireille and George Anglades's house located in the same ancestral domain in Port-au-Prince also collapsed.

Family

His daughter Dominique Anglade is currently a member of the National Assembly of Quebec and was deputy premier of the province from October 2017 to October 2018. She is the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and leader of the Official Opposition of Quebec.

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