The story
Jacques Raymond was born in Montréal on 30 September 1919, to French-Canadian parents. After secondary studies at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Outremont, he took night courses at HEC Montréal, and obtained his title of Chartered Accountant. He later became a Chartered Administrator and Certified Management Consultant.
He founded a small accounting firm in Montreal with Guy Chabot in 1948, named Raymond Chabot, which later became Raymond, Chabot, Martin & Cie when Guy Martin joined the firm. In 1967, with Jacques Paré joining, the business took the name Raymond Chabot Martin Paré, which stayed under that name until May 1998, when they took the current name of Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, the biggest of its kind in Quebec as of 2021.
Raymond was President of the Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec and the Canadian Tax Foundation. He was life member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (now CPA Ontario), honorary member of Club social Saint-Denis and Club de tennis Mont-Royal.
Raymond received the title of Fellow, indicated by the letters FCA. He was also a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, and named Man of the Month from Commerce magazine; also decorated with the Merit of HEC and title of "Bâtisseur du 20e siècle" from the Chamber of Commerce of greater Montreal. Raymond died on March 6, 2010, in Westmount.
From Wikipedia’s article on Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4