Alexis Nihon
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Alexis Louis Nihon, Template:Post-nominals (15 May 1902 – 8 April 1980) was a Belgian-born Canadian inventor and businessman.
Biography
Alexis was born in Liège, Belgium, the son of Alexis Laurent Nihon and Marie Florentine Thiry, he moved to Canada when he was eighteen years oldScript error: No such module "Unsubst"..
In 1940, he started the glass manufacturer Compagnie industrielle du verre limitée (Industrial Glass Works Company Limited) in Saint-Laurent, Quebec; it was one of the few Canadian glass manufacturers during the Second World War.[1] He sold it in the 1940sScript error: No such module "Unsubst".. In 1946, he started Corporation Alexis Nihon (today Alexis Nihon REIT) that would later become one of the largestScript error: No such module "Unsubst". real estate companies in Canada.
He was married to Alice Robert Nihon and they had four children: two daughters who died young, and Olympic wrestlers Alexis Nihon Jr. and Robert Nihon.[2] He died at his home in Nassau, Bahamas[3] in 1980.
In addition to the REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust), his name lives on as a major residential/commercial thoroughfare, Alexis Nihon Boulevard, and Alexis-Nihon Park, both in Saint-Laurent, and the Place Alexis Nihon shopping mall in downtown Montreal. It was built on one of his several tracts of land that he rented to developers.[4]
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