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Richard Coulton Berkinshaw
Richard Coulton Berkinshaw, company executive (b at Toronto 2 Sept 1891; d there 4 May 1970). Berkinshaw attended Upper Canada College, University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall.
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Richard Coulton Berkinshaw, company executive (b at Toronto 2 Sept 1891; d there 4 May 1970). Berkinshaw attended Upper Canada College, University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall.
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Richard (Dick) Macauley Ivey, CC, QC, lawyer, businessperson and philanthropist (born 26 October 1925 in London, ON; died 28 December 2019 in Toronto, ON). Richard M. Ivey had a long career as a corporate lawyer and business executive, but he is best known for his philanthropy. Working through his family’s Ivey Foundation, he supported education, medicine and the arts, in particular. The name of the world-renowned Ivey Business School at Western University recognizes his and his family members’ contributions to the university.
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Robert Alexander Cecil Henry, "Red," businessman, public servant (b at Montréal 20 Sept 1884; d at St Petersburg, Fla 1 Jan 1962). Educated at McGill, Henry worked for the CPR before entering the federal public service in 1908.
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Robert Atkinson Davis, businessman, politician, premier of Manitoba 1874-78 (b at Dudswell, Qué 9 Mar 1841; d at Phoenix, Ariz 7 Jan 1903). Davis came to Winnipeg in May 1870 and bought a downtown hotel, which he named Davis House.
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Robert Charles Vaughan, railway executive (b at Toronto 1 Dec 1883; d at Montréal 5 Jan 1966). Vaughan joined the CPR as messenger in 1898.
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Robert Ferguson, businessman (b at Logierait, Scot 17 Apr 1768; d at Campbellton, NB 10 Aug 1851). He came to the RESTIGOUCHE RIVER in 1796 and was soon the most prominent merchant and largest landowner in the region.
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The taxi pulls out of Atlanta Airport and heads towards town, past an unfinished Olympic stadium, past the headquarters of Coca-Cola Co. "You goin' to Buckhead where the rich people live," the cabbie observes.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 3, 1996
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Robert Henry Winters, politician, businessman (b at Lunenburg, NS 18 Aug 1910; d at Monterey, Calif 10 Oct 1969). Educated at Mt Allison U and Massachusetts Inst of Technology, Winters joined Northern Electric in Montréal in 1934. He became a lt-col in the army in WWII.
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Robert Hobson, industrialist (b at Berlin [Kitchener], Canada W 13 Aug 1861; d at Hamilton, Ont 25 Feb 1926). Hobson worked first for the Grand Trunk Railway and in 1896 he became secretary-treasurer of the Hamilton Blast Furnace Co.
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This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 23, 2003. Partner content is not updated. WHEN ROBERT MCEWEN got up to speak at his company's annual meeting earlier this month, his first words were: "GOLD is money." It's become a mantra for the soft-spoken chairman and chief executive of Goldcorp Inc.
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