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Prominent figure in the financial and industrial spheres of the city of Quebec, Honoré-Joseph Pinsonnault engages in a diversity of enterprises. But his principal business identity is with the Dominion Corset Company Ltd., with offices at No. 45 Dorchester Street. He is a native of this city, and was born May 20, 1877, son of George-Leon and Zoë (Chateauvert) Pinsonnault, both of this province.
Mr. Pinsonnault secured his secondary academic instruction at the Christian Brothers’ School, Quebec, whence he graduated in 1893, at the age of sixteen years. His first position put him at once in the world of finance, as employee of La Banque du Peuple, Quebec, 1893-98. In 1898 he became an accountant for Neuville-Belleau and Company, of Quebec, and now began to extend his interests. It was in 1909 that he was elected secretary and treasurer of the Dominion Corset Company Ltd. He has held his dual Office through the years that have followed, down to the present (1928), always with fortune to the organization, whose prosperity has become greatly increased.
Mr. Pinsonnault is secretary and treasurer also of the Quebec Paper Box Company, Quebec, the Canada Corset Steel and Wire Company, Quebec, La Compagnie de Placements St. Georges. He is honorary treasurer of the Rotary Club of Quebec, in which organization he is active, is a charter member of and has been a very active member of the Knights of Columbus, adheres to the principles of the Conservatives, is Past President of the Lawn Bowling Club, Past President of the Quebec Curling Club, has introduced the curling sport amongst the French Canadian by succeeding in starting the organization of the first French Canadian Curling Club in Canada, Past President of the Union Commerciale of Quebec, and belongs to the Société des Arts-Sciences et Lettres, the Quebec Board of Trade and the Canadian Club of Quebec.
Mr. Pinsonnault married Marie-Ange Marois, daughter of George A. and Clara (McKenzie) Marois of St-Romuald.
source: JAP 1957
