About Rob Charlebois

Robert Richard Charlebois - The Hockey Player

Forward Bob Charlebois joined the QJHL's St. Jerome Alouettes at the age of 16 in 1960-61. In 35 games, he proved to be one of the league's most dominating offensive stars, scoring 41 goals and 87 points. Following that outstanding offensive performance, Charlebois joined the Montreal Junior Canadiens of the OHA, where he played for three seasons. His offensive production improved each season and in his final year he scored 35 goals and 78 points in just 53 games, finishing third in team scoring behind Andre Boudrias and Yvan Cournoyer. The talent-laden team was also boasted by the likes of; Serge Savard, Jacques Lemaire and goalie Rogatien Vachon.

Charlebois turned pro in 1964-65, playing 70 games with the Omaha Knights of the CPHL. He also played with the Houston Apollos and Memphis North Stars and the Phoenix Roadrunners of the WHL before finally getting the opportunity to play in the NHL in 1967-68. The expansion Minnesota North Stars called upon Charlebois for seven games, but he was limited to just a single goal. The fledgling team, in dire need of offensive talent, seemed to quickly give up on Charlebois being their answer, so he was sent back to the minors.

Charlebois spent the next three years in the WHL with Phoenix before moving on to the Tulsa Oilers of the CHL. Once again, expansion provided the likes of Charlebois with another opportunity. This time it was the birth of the WHA, a rival to the NHL which came into existence in 1972-73. Charlebois joined the Ottawa Nationals and played in all 74 of the team's games. He scored 24 goals and 64 points, good for third in team scoring, behind only Wayne Carleton and Gavin Kirk.

In 1973-74, Charlebois was set to join the Nationals, who had relocated to Toronto and were re-named the Toros, but he was dealt to the New England Whalers for Brit Selby in September of 1973. Despite playing in 74 games, Charlebois was only able to deliver eleven points, which was deemed a huge disappointment to the club.

Although he did play in another 36 games for the Whalers over the next two seasons, Charlebois seemed unable to re-establish his scoring touch. Charlebois continued to play in the minors until retiring in 1978 as a member of the NAHL's Binghamton Dusters.

In March, 1997, Charlebois suited up for an Ottawa Senators Alumni team that played a very unique exhibition game against the Dawson City Nuggets at the Corel Centre. The contest was billed as a rematch of a 1905 two-game series which saw the Ottawa Silver Seven crush Dawson City by an aggregate score of 32-4. A new generation of hockey stars from Dawson City decided they would make a similar trek that their forefathers endured, a 6,400-kilometre trip via sled dogs and snowmobiles. Nuggets assistant captain Kevin Anderson said "The odds against us getting here, of this thing even happening, were greater than they are against us winning the game." Well, as it turned out, that wasn't really the case Dawson City desperately wanted to avenge the outcome of some 92 years earlier, but they came up short - very short. With the likes of former NHLers Charlebois, Laurie Boschman, Brad Marsh Rick Smith, Fred Barrett, Frank St. Marseilles and Bill Kitchen suiting up for the Ottawa Alumni, the Nuggets were handed a humiliating 18-0 defeat. Charlebois scored once in the game for the winners. As part of a bet before the game, Nugget player Pat Hogan agreed he would shave off his beard of 20 years if Dawson City lost the game. He could have started taking it off after just one period with his club already down 6-0. Event organizer Brad Marsh said he and the others on the stacked Alumni squad had considered taking it easy on their opponents, and at one point were going to allow them penalty shots in an effort to keep them competitive in the game, but finally decided that it was important they properly represent the history of the Silver Seven and not turn the game into a sideshow. The fact the Nuggets publicly stated they had a legitimate chance at winning the grudge match also no doubt did not sit too well with some of the former NHLers and from that instant it was game over for Dawson Creek.

Charlebois continues to play alumni games with the Ottawa Senators.

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Robert Charlebois - The Famous French Singer and Entrepreneur

Bilingual singer/songwriter/guitarist Robert Charlebois was born in Montreal and studied piano for six years, and in his teens attended the National Theatre School Montreal from 1962-65.

In 1965 he recorded two albums - his first, 'Ma Boule', which attracted the attention of Selec Records who also released 'Robert Charlebois Volume I'. In 1966 the sequel, 'Volume II' was released as Charlebois began setting himself up as a force to be reckoned with.

In 1968 he moved over to Gamma Records with another self-titled debut but it was the song he'd written with Claude Peloquin, called "Lindberg", which earned him the grand prize at the Fifth International Festival of French Song at Spa, Belgium, and the Prix-Leclerc at Festival du disque.

By the late 1960s he was being recognized as the "Superfrog" with his patriotic apparel and slang bilingual songs (known as joual). Along with his band and frequent female backing vocalists such as Louise Forestier and Mouffe, Charlebois had managed to become a true Francophone pop star.

His first appearance outside Quebec was at the Toronto Pop Festival in 1969 (the same Festival that produced John Lennon's 'Live Peace In Toronto' LP). And a year later was a member of the Festival Express which traveled across Canada by train entertaining Canadians with its wide variety of top name Canadian performers.

Following a succession of hit singles in Quebec in 1969 and 1970, Charlebois started writing film scores such as 'Jusqu'an coeur' (1969), 'A Soir, on fait peur au monde' (1969), 'Deux femmes en or' (1970) and 'Bulldozer' (1971).

More singles followed in a newly discovered crossover to Cajun and Acadian music. In 1972 Charlebois released his first record in English - "The Greatest Idea".

Following two successive albums in 1974, Charlebois took a break to act in the films 'Sombre vacances' (1975) and Spaghetti Western director Sergio Leone's 'Un genie, deux associes un cloche' (1976).

By year's end began performing again and has maintained his status as the father of the electric chansonnier style of music. A succession of low key releases in the '80's helped Charlebois wade out the tide of shifting musical tastes and in 1992 he released 'Immensement', which received France's Victoire (a French Grammy Award).

He also recorded his first rock opera, 'Cartier', which was also performed live on French radio. Charlebois also teamed up with singer Claude Dubois in a rock duel at the Festival Franco-Ontarien in Ottawa.

Charlebois owns the largest independent micro-brewery in Quebec called Charlebois beer.

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Robert Marc Charlebois - The Online Marketer and Entrepreneur

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