Today at lunch I was looking at the news on the internet and saw that Jean Pigott had just died. She was in poor health and was living at Grace Manor, by a strange coincidence she was also born in the very same hospital then known as Grace Hospital in May 1924. She was 87 years old. I am quite sad to read this news, I knew her and her sisters, I worked for her in Parliament when Joe Clark was Prime Minister and Flora Macdonald was an M.P.
She was a great lady and a wonderful story teller, a champion of our National Capital, Ottawa. In her office she had this incredible collection of little pigs, her family name is Pigott so the connection. Her family are famous in Ottawa, they are the owners of Morrison-Lamothe Bakery, bread making and pastries is the trade mark of this family. She use to say never go a day without tasting the bread. She was for many years the CEO of the company. She became the Chair of the National Capital Commission and her legacy amongst other things is Confederation Boulevard, the great ceremonial road in Ottawa with its red granite sidewalks. She had vision which is so rare in politicians, she also was generous and was involved all her life in philanthropy.
We need more people like her in this day and age. She died on the birthday, the 197th. of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada, who like her belonged to the Conservative party. Flags on Parliament and at City Hall are at half-mast. In 1995 the Governor General made her an Officer of the Order of Canada. Her maiden name was Morrison and she married Arthur Pigott.
We will miss her, such a great lady.
She was a great lady and a wonderful story teller, a champion of our National Capital, Ottawa. In her office she had this incredible collection of little pigs, her family name is Pigott so the connection. Her family are famous in Ottawa, they are the owners of Morrison-Lamothe Bakery, bread making and pastries is the trade mark of this family. She use to say never go a day without tasting the bread. She was for many years the CEO of the company. She became the Chair of the National Capital Commission and her legacy amongst other things is Confederation Boulevard, the great ceremonial road in Ottawa with its red granite sidewalks. She had vision which is so rare in politicians, she also was generous and was involved all her life in philanthropy.
We need more people like her in this day and age. She died on the birthday, the 197th. of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada, who like her belonged to the Conservative party. Flags on Parliament and at City Hall are at half-mast. In 1995 the Governor General made her an Officer of the Order of Canada. Her maiden name was Morrison and she married Arthur Pigott.
We will miss her, such a great lady.
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