Editing Brian Mulroney (section)

== Early life (1939–1955) ==
Mulroney was born on March 20, 1939, in [[Baie-Comeau]], Quebec, a remote and isolated town of the [[Côte-Nord]] region, in the eastern part of the province. He was the son of [[Irish Canadian]] [[Catholic]] parents, Mary Irene (née O'Shea) and Benedict Martin Mulroney,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cdnirish.concordia.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79|title=School of Canadian Irish Studies – Irene Mulroney Scholarship|publisher=Cdnirish.concordia.ca|access-date=June 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706173454/http://cdnirish.concordia.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79|archive-date=July 6, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> who was a [[paper mill]] electrician. As there was no English-language Catholic high school in Baie-Comeau, Mulroney completed his high school education at a [[Roman Catholic]] boarding school in [[Chatham, New Brunswick]], operated by [[St. Thomas University (Canada)|St. Thomas University]]. In 2001, St. Thomas University named its newest academic building in his honour. Benedict Mulroney worked overtime and ran a repair business to earn extra money for his children's education, and he encouraged his oldest son to attend university.<ref name="ReferenceA">''Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition'', by [[John Sawatsky]], 1991</ref>

Mulroney would frequently tell stories about newspaper publisher [[Robert R. McCormick]], whose company had founded Baie-Comeau. Mulroney would sing [[Irish music|Irish songs]] for McCormick,<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Peter C. Newman |first=Peter C. |last=Newman |title-link=The Secret Mulroney Tapes |title=The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister |publisher=Random House Canada |date=2005 |page=54}}</ref> and the publisher would slip him $50.<ref>[[Gordon Donaldson (journalist)|Gordon Donaldson]], ''The Prime Ministers of Canada'', (Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1997), p. 309.</ref> Mulroney grew up speaking English and French fluently.<ref name="Donaldson310">Donaldson, p. 310.</ref>