Rémi Benoît (January 3, 1842 – June 19, 1919) was a man of a number of vocations from D'Escousse, Nova Scotia.
He was a French-speaking Acadian who received a great deal of his education in English, resulting in his being fluently bi-lingual.
In 1881 he helped organize the Convention Nationale des Acadiens and also on three subsequent occasions.
This became the most important Acadian financial institution of the 20th century and Benoît served as president, chancellor, and a director.
Benoît devoted much energy to Acadian causes and founding an institution that, in an altered form, still exists today.