Birth Name: Thomas Joseph Mulcair
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario
Date of Birth: October 24, 1954
Ethnicity:
*Irish (father)
*French-Canadian (mother)
Thomas Mulcair is a Canadian politician. He is the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP).
Thomas’s father, Harry Donnelly Mulcair, was of Irish descent. Thomas’s mother, Jeanne (Hurtubise), was born to a French-Canadian family.
Thomas is Catholic, while his wife, Catherine Pinhas, is a Sephardi Jew (her family is from Turkey). Catherine is the daughter of Lydia Perez and Raphaël Pinhas.
Thomas’s paternal grandparents were Thomas Joseph Mulcair (the son of John Mulcair and Catherine Evoy) and Irène Béatrice Donnelly (the daughter of John Donnelly and Bridget McCallum).
Thomas’s maternal grandparents were Pierre Edwin Hurtubise (the son of Edwin Hurtubise and Éliza Chauveau) and Jeanne Mercier (the daughter of Paul-Émile Mercier and Marie-Louise Taché). Paul-Émile’s father, Honoré Mercier, was the 9th Premier of Quebec (from 1887 to 1891).
Sources: Genealogies of Thomas Mulcair – http://www.geni.com
http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca
http://claude-langevin.net