Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date of Birth: July 22, 1947
Ethnicity:
*75% French-Canadian
*25% English
Gilles Duceppe is a Canadian politician. He is the leader of the Bloc Québécois party, and as such, previously served as Leader of the Opposition in Parliament in 1996 and 1997.
Gilles is the son of Hélène (Rowley) and actor Jean Duceppe (born Jean Duceppe Hotte). His maternal grandfather was English. The rest of his ancestry is French-Canadian.
Gilles’s paternal grandparents were Aimé Hotte (the son of Simon Hotte and Marie Elmire Philomene Raza) and Claire Dutrisac (the daughter of Dosithé Dutrisac and Léocadie Legault).
Gilles’s maternal grandparents were John James Rowley (the son of Jean Rowley and Helen Haley) and Marie-Josephe Yvonne Pilon (the daughter of Ludger Pilon and Malvina Albina Quesnel).
Sources: Genealogies of Gilles Duceppe – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://fam.eastmill.com