Michael George DeGroote, born 13th August 1933. He sadly passed on 11th September 2022.Michael was a Bermuda-based Canadian businessman and philanthropist from Hamilton, Ontario.
Aside from his business career, he was best known as a major private donor to McMaster University, McMaster University Medical School, and Hillfield Strathallan College.
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DeGroote was born in Belgium to Flemish parents and moved to Canada when he was 14 years old with his parents.
He dropped out of school in Grade 9 to work in tobacco fields near Tillsonburg, Ontario, to support his family.
Michael retired to Bermuda in 1990.
However, controversy followed him after his departure in December 1990, when he resigned as a director of Laidlaw, and in August 1992, Laidlaw paid $ 7.65 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that the company’s executives “had misrepresented Laidlaw’s financial condition.”
