(CP) FREDERICTON -- Former premier Louis J. Robichaud, widely regarded as the architect of modern New Brunswick, died yesterday after a brief battle with cancer. He was 79. The Acadian lawyer, who transformed a poor and divided province into a thriving bilingual and bicultural society, died in hospital near the village of Saint-Antoine, where he was born.
Robichaud, Liberal premier of New Brunswick from 1960 to 1970 and a member of the Senate from 1973 to 2000, was surrounded by family and friends in his final days.
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