ROUSSEAU, Grzegorz Napoleon Rousseau - September 15th, 2024
Grzegorz (Gregory) Napoleon Rousseau, 72, of Oshawa, passed away suddenly on September 15, 2024. Gregory was born on March 30, 1952 to Andrzej and Regina Rousseau in Płock, Poland. After Gregory graduated from the Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Władysława Jagiełły in Płock, he went on to study engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, graduating with a Masters Degree.
He was committed to and involved in the Solidarity movement (niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy „Solidarność” - NSZZ) in Poland that led to the first independent trade union in the country to be recognized by the State, as a result of using civil resistance to advance workers’ rights and social change, and was imprisoned twice as a result of martial law and political repression imposed in the country in 1980. Along with his wife Anna (deceased) and daughter Paulina, he emigrated to Canada in 1984, settling in Oshawa and working in the area of construction and electrical engineering in a variety of roles and for numerous organizations, and was a member of the IBEW. He was generous and open, and had a love for nature and animals. He was predeceased by his wife Anna and is survived by his daughter Paulina.
By his request, no service will be held. In lieu of flowers, his daughter requests donations be made to Nature Conservancy Canada.
Online condolences may be shared at www.armstrongfh.ca
