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Directors of Bank of Montreal: John Wilson Mcconnell, Robert Prichard, Martha Piper, Don M. Wilson Iii, F. Anthony Comper, Philip Orsino

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Directors of Bank of Montreal: John Wilson Mcconnell, Robert Prichard, Martha Piper, Don M. Wilson Iii, F. Anthony Comper, Philip Orsino
Chapters: John Wilson Mcconnell, Robert Prichard, Martha Piper, Don M. Wilson Iii, F. Anthony Comper, Philip Orsino, Eva Kwok, David A. Galloway. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Wilson McConnell (July 1, 1877 November 6, 1963) was a Canadian businessman, newspaper publisher, humanitarian, and the most significant philanthropist in the history of the province of Quebec, Canada. McConnell was born to a farming family in the Muskoka Region of Ontario. He left home as a boy of fourteen to find employment in the city of Toronto. His first job paid $3 a week but as an employee at Standard Chemical Co. he worked his way up to a management position that eventually led to a transfer to Montreal in 1901. The then twenty-three year old for a time lived in a room at the Montreal YMCA, an institution that he would later thank through his volunteering to help lead a successful fund-raising campaign. In 1905, he married Lily May Griffith. They had four children. Although he had very limited education, J.W. McConnell was a principled and brilliant business visionary with a strong work ethic. Within a few years, he turned his savings into sizeable investments and in 1912 he gained majority control of St. Lawrence Sugar, a company founded in 1879 to compete with Montreal's Redpath Sugar refinery. The sugar refinery was struggling at the time McConnell stepped in but, renamed St. Lawrence Sugar Refineries, Limited he turned it into a very profitable business and would retain ownership for the rest of his life. During World War I, J.W. McConnell played a key role in helping organize war bond drives and his business skills were put to use by the Government of Canada that appointed him to the unpaid position of Director of Licences for the Wartime Trade Board....More:
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