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Preceded by
  
Karin Marks

Residence
  
Westmount, Canada

Name
  
Peter Trent

Preceded by
  

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Full Name
  
Peter Francis Trent

Born
  
11 September 1946 (age 78) Loughborough, Leicestershire, England (
1946-09-11
)

Succeeded by
  
Merged with Montreal

Peter Trent (#62): Baseline Sports Scrimmage Highlights (3/2/2019)


Peter Francis Trent (born 5 January 1946) is an English-born Canadian businessman and politician. He was mayor of Westmount, Quebec until his retirement in April, 2017. He was first elected as councillor in 1983. He served as mayor from 1992 to 2001, he left politics at that time due to the forced merger with the City of Montreal. He again became Mayor of Westmount by acclamation on the November 1, 2009 municipal election.

Peter Trent Westmount Mayor Peter Trent stepping down after quarter century

Born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, Trent and his family immigrated to Toronto when he was 10. In 1968, at the age of 22 he left McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario to work for a chemical company in Montreal. In 1972, he started his own company (with Raymond Charlebois), PBI/Plastibeton Inc. which he would later sell in 1989 to Shell Oil and Lone Star Industries. From 1982-1983, he taught Marketing at Concordia University's Faculty of Commerce and Administration. In 1992, he received a medal marking the 125th anniversary of Canada. In 1994 he was named honorary lieutenant colonel of the Royal Montreal Regiment, and in 1999 honorary colonel. In 2005 he received the decoration of the Canadian Forces.

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After the 2002 mergers, Trent resigned from office. He fought for three years for de-mergers as a non-elected official before retiring from politics. He eventually returned to politics and was elected mayor of Westmount in 2009. He retired from the mayor's position in April, 2017.

Peter Trent Peter Trent Why it was time for this Westmount mayor to say goodbye

He owns the licences to many worldwide patents, which supplies him with a significant revenue stream, and this has allowed Trent to devote himself to public service.

Peter Trent After more than 30 years in politics Westmount Mayor Peter Trent

Trent's book about the merger-demerger period in Montreal, The Merger Delusion was published in the fall of 2012 by McGill-Queen's University Press. The book was shortlisted for the 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. He planned to present ideas in the last book that would be the foundation for a debate starting in 2013 about governing the Montreal region.

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Peter Trent Mayor Peter F Trent bows out

References

Peter Trent Wikipedia


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