Me Gérard Delage,

It is to the memory of Gérard Delage that this Foundation has been dedicated. Gérard Delage was Quebec’s hospitality ambassador, a leader in the promotion of tourism and an advocate of gastronomy.

Called to the bar in 1935, Mr. Gérard Delage was legal counsel and director of the Association des hôteliers de la province de Québec. He came to play an important role among the hoteliers of the world by becoming vice-president of the American Hotel Trade Association Executives, official representative of the Hotel Association of Canada, the Canadian Tourist Association, the International Hotel Association and president of the Conseil du tourisme de la province de Québec.

As he witnessed the dazzling evolution of the tourism industry over the years and shared in most of the victories and benefits in the field, Gérard Delage assumed his title of dean of the world of gastronomy with humour and detachment, as well as with the utmost respect for the important part played by the hundreds of professionals who have spared no effort to make Quebec the paradise of fine dining. Incidentally, he used to say that gastronomy was the first reflection of civilisation.