Francis Hector Clergue (born August 28, 1856 - died January 19, 1939) was an American businessman who became the leading industrialist of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada at the turn of the 20th Century.
Born in Brewer, Maine, United States, Clergue studied law at the University of Maine after which he was involved in a number of business ventures until coming to Ontario. Following the 1895 construction of a new canal and lock, he founded the still-existing pulp mill and paper mill plus Algoma Steel, as well as the Algoma Central Railway for which the city is most noted. By the early 20th century, Clergue had overextended himself and the companies that he had founded continued under new management.
He spent his latter years in Montreal, Quebec where he died in 1939.
In 1946, Sir James Dunn, the then owner of Algoma Steel, commissioned author Alan Sullivan to write Clergue's biography.
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