Name Jean Brabant Role Lawyer | Education McGill University | |
Born September 20, 1938 (age 85) ( 1938-09-20 ) Montreal, Quebec Known for Les Atriums
Tropics North
Comment tripler sa memoire apres 50 ans Spouse Celine Lomez (m. 1981–1995), Hilary Radley | ||
Jean de Brabant (born 20 September 1938, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian lawyer, author and entrepreneur.
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Biography
Jean graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil law in 1959 from McGill University. He practiced law from 1960 to 1975 with the firm Ahern, de Brabant, Nuss & Drymer. In 1976, he left the firm and began a career as an entrepreneur in the real estate field.
Les Atriums and Tropics North
From 1976 to 1990 he was engaged in real estate development in Montreal. In 1981 he partnered with Claude Laporte to purchase the bankrupt department store “Dupuis Frères” and converted it into a 215,000 square foot office building featuring two 8 story atria, with waterfalls and flowering plants at every level. In 1986 Jean conceived and began development of “Tropics North”, a 12 story condominium, a distinctive characteristic of which is that all the apartments possess large terraces opening on to a 12 story high green-house, designed by Herb Ramsaier, to recreate a Hawaiian environment on the banks of the St. Lawrence. The greenhouse features palm trees, bougainvillea and other tropical plants as well as a lagoon and waterfalls.
The innovations that Tropics North and Les Atriums brought to the table were used to help design the Montreal Biodome.
Jobbook
In August 2010, de Brabant conceived an internet job search and recruitment internet site called "Jobbook.com", based on the use of a job dictionary, organized alphabetically by industry and sector and associating each job title with a job code Jobbook was launched in September 2011, with a focus on University student job search. Jobbook has recruiters in University campuses across North America.;