Joseph Masson

**Joseph Masson** (Janairu 5, 1791 - Mayu 15, 1847) ɗan kasuwa ne ɗan ƙasar Kanada, wanda ake la'akari da shi ɗan kasuwa na farko na Faransa.

Seigneur na Quebec" id="mwDQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Terrebonne, Quebec">Terrebonne, Quebec, shugaban kungiyoyin Masson, shugaban City Gas, ya kuma kasance mataimakin shugaban Banque de Montréal, shugaban Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society na Montreal, kuma memba na Majalisar Dokoki ta Lower Canada.

Ya kasance babban dan kasuwa na Kanada a cikin shekarun 1830, kuma memba ne na Hall of Fame na Kasuwancin Kanada.

## Tarihin rayuwa
Masson, wanda aka haifa a Saint-Eustache, Quebec a shekara ta 1791, shi ne kawai ɗa (kuma akwai ƴaƴa mata uku) wanda aka haife shi ga Antoine Masson, mai shiga wanda bai san yadda za a rubuta ba,  da Suzanne née Pfeiffer ko Payfer .

Bayan karatunsa a makarantar Saint-Eustache, ya tafi yana da shekaru 16 zuwa Saint-Benoît, Mirabel  don koyon kasuwancin kasuwanci, a matsayin ɗan koyo na ɗan kasuwa Duncan McGillis .

### Shigar da fitarwa
Masson ya yi hayar ne a watan Mayu na shekara ta 1812 daga ɗan kasuwa na Scotland Hugh Robertson, wanda ya same shi da basira sosai. Kamfanin yana da wasu matsaloli, da kuma fatarar kuɗi a cikin 1814. Amma Masson ya tabbatar da darajarsa, kuma ya zama abokin tarayya a 1815 tare da kashi 12.5% na hannun jari. Ya kuma zama mai alhakin tallace-tallace a Scotland, sannan kuma shugaban kamfanin Kanada. An sake fasalin kwangilar haɗin gwiwa tare da Robertsons a cikin 1818 da 1819, lokacin da William Robertson ya mutu, kuma rabonsa na riba ya tashi zuwa 50%.

Masson ya yi aure a 1818 ga Marie-Geneviève-Sophie Raymond, 'yar Jean-Baptiste Raymond (1757-1825), ubangijin Tafkin Matapedia kuma mataimakin Huntingdon.

Masson ya ba da dukan ƙarfinsa don bunkasa kasuwancinsa, kuma ya yarda yana so ya "buƙa" da kuma "ƙetare" masu fafatawa da shi.

Kamfanonin shigo da kayayyaki sun girma kuma sun bambanta. A cikin 1830, ƙungiyar tana da kamfanoni uku: *W. da H. Robertson da Kamfanin*, a Glasgow, karkashin jagorancin Hugh Robertson; *Robertson, Masson, LaRocque da Kamfanin* a Montreal, karkashin jagoranfin Masson; Masson,LaRocque, Strang da Kamfanin da ke Quebec, wanda Masson ya kirkira  kuma John Strang ya ba da umarni. Masson da Robertson sun mallaki sama da 80% na babban birnin su. Masson ya kasance yayin da ɗan kasuwa na Kanada ya fi shiga kasuwanci tare da kasuwar Burtaniya.

### Sufuri da makamashi
Don jigilar kayayyakin sa, ya sayi sabon Jirgin ruwa na tan 290, ya ba shi sunan matarsa, *"Sophie"*. Daga nan sai ya sayi, gaba ɗaya ko a cikin shiga, wasu jiragen ruwa biyu da jirgin ruwa. Har ila yau, yana da alaƙa da sufuri, ya nemi Majalisar dokoki ta gina tashar ruwa; ya kirkiro Kamfanin sufuri kuma ya fara gina hanyar jirgin ƙasa.

A cikin 1832, Masson ya shiga cikin kafa hanyar jirgin kasa ta farko a Kanada: *Champlain da St. Lawrence Railroad* . 

Masson ya kuma saka hannun jari a cikin kayan aikin birane na samar da Ruwa da Hasken gas, a Montreal, a Quebec da Toronto. A gayyatar abokan aikinsa, ya sanya hannun jari na farko a Montreal, kuma sa hannun jarinsa a 1842 ya kai fiye da kashi ɗaya bisa uku na kamfanin Gaz de Montréal .  Ya kafa tare da John Strang a cikin 1841 Compagnie de l'eau et de l'éclairage au gaz na Quebec, kuma tare da Furniss ya kafa City of Toronto Light Gas and Water Company, wanda shi ne shugaban.

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