Claude Cormier Biography: Childhood - Living on a Farm, Work = Fun [1 of 8] 

Claude Cormier, the third of four children, was raised on a farm and sugarbush near Princeville, Québec, a French-speaking part of Canada, with his brother and two sisters. His mother, Solange, was a teacher and his father, Laurent, an “avant-garde” politician who was very “progressive” in his attitude about new technologies. There was no notion of “play” living on the farm, but work could be fun. Cormier received a chainsaw for his sixteenth birthday. Everything was very pragmatic; as farmers they were feeding the world.