Eugene Pechet

Eugene Pechet (September 22, 1916 – August 23, 2008) was a Canadian hotelier and banker. He bought his first hotel in 1942 and went on to build and operate 25 hotels throughout Western Canada and the United States.

Eugene's grandfather Mayer Pechet was born on September 6, 1877 in Bucharest and married Marie Weisler (1886–1972) in 1902. The couple moved to Saskatchewan in the same year, opening a tinsmith shop in town, and would have a total of eleven children.

Eugene Pechet was born in Hirsch, Saskatchewan, on a Hirsch Jewish farming colony near Lipton, Saskatchewan. Following Depression-era economic hardships, the family moved to Edmonton in 1928. Eugene bought his first hotel, the Auditorium Hotel, in North Battleford in 1942.