- C. D. Howe
Clarence Decatur "C. D." Howe, PC (15 January 1886 – 31 December 1960) was a leading Canadian politician. In the 1940s and 1950s, he was known as the "Minister of Everything." - K. C. Irving
Kenneth Colin Irving, OC, ONB (March 14, 1899-December 13, 1992) also known as K. C. Irving was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick. He was one of Atlantic Canada's foremost entrepreneurs of the 20th century and ranks as one of the world's leading industrialists. Today the Irving group of companies are owned and operated by his three sons, James, Arthur, and Jack, and their respective children. - Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords. - Peter Munk
Peter Munk, OC, B.Eng, LL.D (Born: November 8, 1927 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. - Frank Stronach
Frank Stronach, CM (born September 6, 1932 as Franz Strohsack) is an Austrian and Canadian businessman. He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment. - Peter Godsoe
Peter Cowperthwaite Godsoe, OC, MBA, LL.D, FCA (born 1938) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and Chief executive officer of the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1992 to 2003. He is a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, and serves as the Chairman of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and Sobeys. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of J. Gerald "Gerry" and Margaret (Cowperthwaite) Godsoe, … - Purdy Crawford
Purdy Crawford, CC (born 1931) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist. - John Roth
John Roth, is the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nortel. He was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1942. He was named Northern Telecom Limited's CEO in 1995 and was elected to the board of directors in 1996. In February 1997, he was named president of the corporation, in addition to continuing to serve as CEO. In October 1997, Roth became president and CEO of the company which became known as Nortel Networks. - Isadore Sharp
Isadore "Issy" Sharp, O.C. (born October 8, 1931) is a Jewish-Canadian businessman and founder, chairman and CEO of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. In 1952, he graduated from the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute with a degree in architecture. He founded the Four Seasons Hotel in 1960 and opened the first hotel on Jarvis Street in downtown Toronto in 1961. He helped start and is Director of the Terry Fox Run. He married Rosalie Wise and they have three sons, Jordan, … - E. P. Taylor
Edward Plunket Taylor was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses. - Harrison McCain
Harrison McCain, CC, ONB, (November 3, 1927 - March 18, 2004) was a Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods Limited. Born in Florenceville, New Brunswick, he was the co-founder, along with his brothers Andrew, Robert and Wallace, of McCain Foods. Harrison was the 4th son and Wallace the 5th son of the family. Their father was a well respected seed potato farmer. - Graham Day
Sir (Judson) Graham Day (born 1933) is a Canadian and British business executive, lawyer and corporate director who lives in Hantsport, Nova Scotia. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he graduated from Dalhousie Law School with an LL.B. in 1959. He was chairman and CEO of British Shipbuilders from 1983 to 1986, and chairman and CEO of the Rover Group from 1986 until 1991. He was chancellor of Dalhousie University from 1994 to 2001. - Wallace McCain
G. Wallace F. McCain (born 1930) is a Canadian businessman, a co-founder of McCain Foods Limited, and a billionaire. Born in Florenceville, New Brunswick, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Allison University in 1951. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. McCain co-founded McCain Foods in 1956 with his brother Harrison McCain. In 1995, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being "one of Atlantic Canada's most notable entrepreneurs". - Richard Currie
Richard James Currie, O.C.,B.Sc.Eng.,M.B.A., L.L.D., P.Eng., was born in 1937 in Saint John, New Brunswick, and is a notable Canadian businessman. - Izzy Asper
Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper, OC, OM, QC, LL.M, Ph.D. (August 11, 1932 - October 7, 2003), Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate, was the founder of CanWest Global Communications Corp. Israel Asper was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba, the son of musicians who had emigrated from Ukraine. Asper attended the University of Manitoba. In 1957 he received his Bachelor of law degree from the University of Manitoba, and was called to the bar shortly thereafter. - Albert D. Cohen
Albert Diamond Cohen (born 1914) is a Canadian businessman who is the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Gendis Incorporated, a Canadian company which had a 51% stake in Sony of Canada and once owned SAAN (Surplus Army, Airforce, Navy) Stores Limited. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of Alexander and Bereka (Diamond) Cohen, he served with the Royal Canadian Navy from 1942 to 1945. - Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook
William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC (May 25, 1879 - June 9, 1964) was a Canadian - British business tycoon and politician. - Izaak Walton Killam
Izaak Walton Killam (July 23, 1885 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - August 5, 1955 in Grand-Cascapedia, Quebec) was one of Canada's most eminent financiers. Killam rose from paper boy in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to become one of Canada's wealthiest individuals. As a young banker with the Union Bank of Halifax, Killam became close friends with John F. Stairs and Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) who put Killam in charge of his Royal Securities. - Frank H. Sobey
Frank H. Sobey O.C. (1902 - December 15 1985) was a Canadian businessman who was the primary builder of the Sobeys Stores chain. Born in Lyons Brook, Nova Scotia, he was three years old when his family moved to the town of Stellarton where his father operated a meat retailing business, peddling meat products door to door on a horse-drawn wagon. In an era where education opportunities were limited in small Maritime towns, Frank Sobey left school after Grade 8. However, … - Ted Newall
James Edward (Ted) Newall (born 1935) is a Canadian businessman. Born in Holden, Alberta and raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1958. He started working at DuPont Canada rising to become chairman, president and CEO by 1979. In 1991, he became CEO of NOVA Corporation. He is Chairman of the Board of Canadian Pacific Railway and has been a director of several major companies, including Alcan, … - Allen Lambert
Allen Thomas Lambert (1911 - October 25, 2002) was a Canadian banker and former Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. - Thomas J. Bata
Thomas J. Bata, also known as Tomas Bata Jr. and Tomáš Baťa Jr., ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 40s until the 80s. Bata was born in the Czech city of Zlin, in what is now the Czech Republic, the son of Czech industrialist Tomáš Baťa. Bata has also won many honorary degrees and is a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian award. - Timothy Eaton
Timothy Eaton (1834 - January 31, 1907) was a Canadian businessman who founded the Eaton's department store, one of the most important retail businesses in Canada's history. He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, of a Protestant Scottish ancestry. As a 20-year-old Irish apprentice shopkeeper, Timothy Eaton sailed from Ireland to settle with other family members in southern Ontario, Canada. In 1861, with the help of his brothers Robert and James, … - St. Clair Balfour
St. Clair Balfour, O.C., D.S.C., B.A., LL.D, D.S.L. (April 30 1910 - May 9 2002) was a Canadian businessman. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of St. Clair Balfour and Ethel May Southam (the daughter of William Southam, the founder of Southam Newspapers), he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Trinity College in 1931. In 1933, he married Helen Staunton. They had two children: Lisa Balfour Bowen and St. Clair Balfour IV. - Laurent Beaudoin
Beaudoin became Chief Executive Officer of Bombardier, Inc. in 1979, rescuing it from near bankruptcy. He currently sits on the Canadian Advisory Board of the Carlyle Group. In 1973 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1988. In 1990, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. - William Cornelius van Horne
Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, KCMG (February 3, 1843 - September 11, 1915) was a pioneering North American railway executive. Born in Chelsea, Illinois, in the United States, he moved with his family to nearby Joliet, Illinois when he was eight years old. Van Horne began working on railroads in 1857, serving in various capacities on the Michigan Central Railway until 1864, … - George Simpson
Sir George Simpson (1787 - 7 September 1860) was a Scots-Quebecer and employee of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). His title was Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land and the Indian Territories in British North America (now Canada) from 1821 to 1860. George Simpson was born in Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland, the only son of George Simpson, Sr., a writer in Dingwall. - Jean Coutu
Jean Coutu (born 29 May 1927) is a Canadian pharmacist and businessman. He is the founder of the Jean Coutu Group which he started in 1969. He is currently the Chairman. In 1993, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. - A. Jean de Grandpré
Albert Jean de Grandpre CC (born September 14, 1921) is a Canadian businessman, lawyer, and former president and chief executive officer of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and received a B.C.L from McGill University in 1943. He joined Bell Canada as a general counsel in 1966 and was made president in 1973. - Guy Saint-Pierre
Guy Saint-Pierre, CC (born August 3, 1934) is a retired Canadian politician and businessman. Born in Windsor Mills, Quebec, he was the son of Armand Saint-Pierre and Alice Perra. Saint-Pierre graduated from Université Laval with a B.A.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 1957. He obtained an M.Sc. from the University of London in 1959 and holds a D.I.C. (Diploma of the Imperial College) from the Imperial College London. - Ed Mirvish
Edwin "Honest Ed" Mirvish, OC, CBE (July 24, 1914 — July 11, 2007) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario who lived in Toronto, Ontario. He is known not only for his flagship business, Honest Ed's, a landmark discount store in downtown Toronto, but also as a patron of the arts, instrumental in revitalizing the theatre scene in Toronto. - Henry Birks
Henry Birks (30 November 1840 - 16 April 1928) was a Canadian businessman and founder of Henry Birks and Sons, the Canadian jewellery store. His stores catered to a wealthier clientele who could afford their high quality merchandise. They became famous for the Birks "Blue Box." In 2005 Henry Birks & Sons, which was founded in 1879, … - Alfred J. Billes
Alfred Jackson Billes (December 1, 1902 - April 3, 1995) was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire. Born in Toronto, Ontario, at age sixteen, he went to work as a clerk at a branch of the Dominion Bank. In 1922 he used his savings to team up with his brother William to buy Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd. in Toronto. The following year the brothers moved the business to downtown Toronto where they began the conversion to a garage/retail business. - Adam Beck
Sir Adam Beck, (June 20, 1857 - August 15, 1925) was a politician and hydro-electricity advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. Beck was born in Baden, Ontario to German immigrants, Jacob Beck and Charlotte Hespler. He attended school at the Rockwood Academy in Rockwood, Ontario. As a teenager he worked in his father's foundry, and later established a cigar-box manufacturing company in Galt (now Cambridge, Ontario) with his brother William. - Gerry Schwartz
Gerald W. Schwartz, born c.1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian businessman. He received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Manitoba where he became an active brother of the Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity. He later received an MBA degree from Harvard University in 1970. In 1977 he co-founded CanWest Global Communications Inc, followed by Onex Corporation in 1983. He has been a director of Scotiabank since 1999. - Samuel Bronfman
Samuel Bronfman, CC (February 27, 1889 - July 10, 1971) founded Distillers Corporation Limited and a Canadian family dynasty the Bronfman family. - Joseph E. Atkinson
Joseph Edward Atkinson (December 23 1865 - May 7 1948) was a Canadian newspaper editor and activist. Under his leadership the Toronto Star became one of the most largest and most influential newspapers in Canada. Atkinson amassed a considerable fortune, eventually holding the controlling interest in the paper he edited. On his death control of the paper passed to the trustees of the Atkinson Foundation, a major canadian charity. - Richard Haskayne
Richard (Dick) Francis Haskayne, O.C., A.O.E., B.Comm., LL.D., F.C.A., (born 1934) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Raised in Gleichen, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta in 1956 and became a Chartered Accountant in 1959. He spent more than twenty years with Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas becoming President in 1980. He was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Interhome Energy Inc. - H. R. MacMillan
Harvey Reginald ("H.R.") MacMillan CC (September 9, 1885 - February 9, 1976) was a Canadian forester, forestry industrialist, wartime administrator, and philanthropist. Born in Newmarket, Ontario, he graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College in 1906 with an honours degree in biology. He obtained a Master of Science degree in Forestry at Yale University in 1908. In 1912, he was appointed first Chief Forester of British Columbia, … - William Neilson
William Neilson, (March 16, 1844 - February 10, 1915) was a Canadian businessman and founder of William Neilson Limited. He was born in the Ramsey township, Lanark County, Ontario. His working life began as a farmer in Rochester, New York, then moved on to being a machinist's apprentice in Almonte, Ontario. In 1873 journeyman Neilson worked in Brockville, Ontario, moving on in 1889 to retail store.
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