Collège Boréal recently honoured its third president, Denis Hubert Dutrisac, by naming its concert hall “Salle Trisac.”
“This honour recognizes his vision and his incalculable contributions to the development and education of the francophonie,” said a press release from the college.
“In the Gaulish language, the word 'Trisac' signifies 'a home where it is good to live.'”
It also presumably refers to Trisac Incorporated, the consulting company started by Hubert Dutrisac's late wife, Francine Chartrand-Dutrisac, who passed away in 2011.
Hubert Dutrisac was the president of Collège Boréal from 2006 to 2013.
He started his career as a city planner and later a city manager in Vanier and Ottawa, Ont. and Gatineau, Que.
It wasn't until the mid-1990s that he was recruited as the vice-president of finance and administration and vice-president of innovation and market development at La Cité collégiale, then a brand-new Francophone college in Ottawa.
After helping to build La Cité collégiale from the ground up, he worked for a short period as the director of sectoral liaison for the Association of Community Colleges of Canada before coming to Boréal.
