The Canadian Business Hall of Fame honours "Canada's most distinguished business leaders", according to its web site.
The Canadian Business Hall of Fame was established by Junior Achievement of Canada in 1979. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar)
Inductees:
- Job Abbott
- Israel H. Asper
- W. Maxwell "Max" Aitken
- Charles Allard
- Joseph E. Atkinson
- St. Clair Balfour
- Irving K. Job Abbott ( 23 August 1845 &ndash 18 August 1896) was an American -born Canadian Civil engineer who helped pioneer Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper OC QC OM ( August 11, 1932 - October 7, 2003) William Maxwell "Max" Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook Bt Joseph E Atkinson ( December 23, 1865 &ndash May 8, 1948) was a Canadian Newspaper editor and activist. St Clair Balfour, OC, DSC, BA LLD DSL ( April 30 1910 &ndash May 9 2002) was a Canadian businessman Barber
- John W.H. Bassett
- Sonja I. John White Hughes Bassett, PC, OC, OOnt ( August 25, 1915 &ndash April 27, 1998) was a Canadian Bata
- Thomas J. Bata
- Laurent Beaudoin
- Adam Beck
- Michel Bélanger
- Max Bell
- Charles Bentall
- L. Thomas John Bata CC ( September 17, 1914 &ndash September 1, 2008) also known as Tomas Bata Jr Laurent Beaudoin, CC, OQ, FCA (born May 13, 1938) is a Canadian Businessman. Sir Adam Beck (June 20 1857 &ndash August 15 1925 was a politician and hydro- Electricity advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Michel Bélanger (1929 &ndash December 1, 1997) was a Canadian businessman and banker George Maxwell "Max" Bell ( 13 October 1912 &ndash 19 July 1972) was a Canadian Newspaper Publisher L. G. (Poldi) Bentley
- Alfred J. Billes
- J. William Billes
- Henry Birks
- Conrad Black
- J. Armand Bombardier
- Edmund C. Alfred Jackson (A J Billes ( December 1, 1902 - April 3, 1995) was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire John William Billes (1897 - November 1956 was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire. Henry Birks ( 30 November 1840 &ndash 16 April 1928) was a Canadian businessman and founder of Henry Birks and Sons Conrad Moffat Black Baron Black of Crossharbour PC, KCSG, OC, (born 25 August 1944, in Montreal, Quebec) is Joseph-Armand Bombardier ( April 16, 1907 - February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman and was the founder of Bovey
- John L. Bragg
- Jeffry H. John L Bragg (born 1941 is a Canadian businessman and Chancellor of Mount Allison University. Brock
- Samuel Bronfman
- Patrick Burns
- André Chagnon
- John Edward Cleghorn
- John Clyne
- Albert D. Cohen
- George A. Cohon
- Jack Cooper
- Jean Coutu
- George Albertus Cox
- John Chalker Crosbie
- Purdy Crawford
- David M. Culver
- Samuel Cunard
- Richard J. Currie
- Camille A. Dagenais
- Graham Day
- A. Jean de Grandpré
- Alphonse Desjardins
- A. Samuel Bronfman, CC ( February 27, 1889 &ndash July 10, 1971) founded Distillers Corporation Limited and a Canadian Patrick Burns ( 6 July 1856 &ndash 24 February 1937) was a Canadian Rancher, Meat packer, Businessman André Chagnon (born 1928 is a Canadian businessman and Philanthropist. John Edward Cleghorn, OC (born July 7, 1941) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Bank of Canada John Valentine Clyne ( February 14, 1902 - August 22, 1989) was a Canadian lawyer and former Justice of the British Columbia Supreme 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 George A Cohon, OC OOnt BSc JD PhD (born April 19 1937) is an American -born Canadian businessman who is the founder and senior Jack Cooper may refer to Jack Cooper businessman who owned Cooper Canada Ltd Jean Coutu may refer to Jean Coutu (actor, actor from Quebec Canada Jean Coutu (pharmacist, Quebec pharmacist Jean George Albertus Cox ( May 7, 1840 &ndash January 16, 1914) was a very prominent Canadian businessman and a member of the Canadian Sir John Chalker Crosbie, KBE ( September 11 1876 &ndash October 5 1932) was a Newfoundland politician and businessman Purdy Crawford, CC (born 1931 is a Canadian lawyer businessman and philanthropist David Michael Culver CC (born December 5, 1924) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alcan Aluminum Sir Samuel Cunard 1st Baronet ( 21 November 1787 &ndash 28 April 1865) was a Canadian -born British shipping magnate Richard James Currie, OCBScEngMBA LLD PEng was born in 1937 in Saint John New Brunswick, and is a notable Canadian businessman Camille A Dagenais CC (born 1920 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian Engineer and former President of the SNC Group (now called SNC-Lavalin Sir (Judson Graham Day (born 1933 is a Canadian and British Business executive, Lawyer and corporate director who lives in Hantsport Albert Jean de Grandpré, CC (born September 14 1921 is a Canadian businessman lawyer and former president and chief executive officer of Bell Canada Enterprises For the 19th-century former mayor of Montreal see Alphonse Desjardins (politician Gabriel-Alphonse Desjardins ( November 5 Ephraim Diamond
- David Dunkelman
- James Hamet Dunn
- Timothy Eaton
- John Robert Evans
- Joseph Flavelle
- Charles Frosst
- Arthur D. Ganong
- Peter Godsoe
- George Gooderham
- Donald Gordon
- James K. Gray
- Frank Griffiths
- Charles L. Sir James Hamet Dunn 1st Baronet ( October 29 1874 - January 1 1956) was a major Canadian financier and industrialist during the first half of Timothy Eaton (1834 &ndash January 31, 1907) was a Canadian businessman who founded the Eaton's Department store, one of the John Robert Evans CC, OOnt, MD (born 1929 is a Canadian pediatrician academic businessperson and civic leader Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle 1st Baronet ( 15 February 1858 &ndash 7 March 1939) was a Canadian businessman Charles Edward Frosst (1867&ndash1948 was a Canadian businessman who founded the pharmaceutical company Charles E Arthur Deinstadt Ganong ( August 3, 1877 - November 1960 was a Canadian businessman and politician Peter Cowperthwaite Godsoe, OC, MBA, LLD, FCA (born 1938 is a Canadian businessman and former President Chairman Donald Gordon, CMG, CC ( December 11, 1901 &ndash May 2, 1969) was a Canadian businessman and the former James Kenneth Gray was born in Kirkland Lake Ontario in 1933 He came to Calgary in 1956 to pursue a career in Alberta 's energy sector Frank A Griffiths ( December 17, 1916 - April 7, 1994) was a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada media mogul Gundy
- Richard Haskayne
- Gerald R. Richard (Dick Francis Haskayne, OC AOE BComm LLD FCA (born 1934 is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist Heffernan
- Herbert Samuel Holt
- C.D. Howe
- K.C. Irving
- Henry N. R. Jackman
- Roy Jodrey
- Ron Joyce
- Norman B. Sir Herbert Samuel Holt ( February 12, 1856 &ndash September 29, 1941) was an Irish -born Canadian Civil engineer Clarence Decatur "C D" Howe PC ( 15 January 1886 – 31 December 1960) was a leading Canadian politician Kenneth Colin Irving OC, ONB ( March 14, 1899 - December 13, 1992) also known as K Henry Newton Rowell "Hal" Jackman OC, OOnt (born June 10, 1932, Toronto Ontario) served as the 25th Lieutenant-Governor Ronald Vaughan Joyce, CM (born 1930 is the Canadian multi-millionaire co-founder of the Tim Hortons Donut chain Keevil
- Izaak Walton Killam
- Leon Koerner
- Murray Koffler
- Edouard Lacroix
- Allen T. Lambert
- Jean-Louis Lévesque
- Theodore Loblaw
- John Bayne Maclean
- H.R. MacMillan
- Frederick C. Izaak Walton Killam ( July 23, 1885 in Yarmouth Nova Scotia &ndash August 5, 1955 in Grand-Cascapedia Quebec) was one Murray Bernard Koffler (born 1924 is a Canadian Pharmacist, businessman and philanthropist Édouard Lacroix was a politician and business person in Quebec, Canada. Allen Thomas Lambert (1911 &ndash October 25, 2002) was a Canadian banker and former Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. Jean-Louis Lévesque ( April 13, 1911 - December 28, 1994) was a Canadian Entrepreneur, thoroughbred racehorse Theodore Pringe Loblaw ( July 1 1872 &ndash 1933 was a Canadian grocer who spent his entire life in the province of Ontario, but became the Lieutenant Colonel John Bayne Maclean ( 26 September 1862 &ndash 25 September 1950) was a Canadian publisher Harvey Reginald ("HR" MacMillan CC CBE ( September 9, 1885 - February 9, 1976) was a Canadian Mannix
- Hart Massey
- Joseph Masson
- Wallace McCain
- Harrison McCain
- Grant McConachie
- Gordon Roy McGregor
- R. S. McLaughlin
- Frank McMahon
- William M. Hart Almerrin Massey ( April 29, 1823 &ndash February 20, 1896) was a Canadian businessman and Philanthropist born in Haldimand G Wallace F McCain, CC, ONB (born 1930 is a Canadian businessman a co-founder of McCain Foods Limited, and a Billionaire. Harrison McCain, CC, ONB, ( November 3, 1927 &ndash March 18, 2004) was a Canadian George William Grant McConachie ( April 24 1909 - June 29 1965) was a Canadian bush pilot and businessman who became Gordon Roy McGregor CC OBE DFC ( September 26, 1901 - March 3, 1971) was a Canadian businessman Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, CC, ED, CD, LLD ( September 8, 1871 - January 6, 1972) was an important Mercer
- Ed Mirvish
- John Molson
- Samuel J. Moore
- Peter Munk
- William Neilson
- A. Edwin "Honest Ed" Mirvish, OC, CBE ( July 24, 1914 — July 11, 2007) was a Canadian Businessman John Molson ( December 28, 1763 &ndash January 11, 1836) was an Anglo-Quebecer who was a major brewer and entrepreneur in Samuel John Moore ( August 3 1859 &ndash 1948 was a Canadian businessman founder of Moore Corporation Limited. Peter Munk, OC, BEng, PEng, LLD (born November 8, 1927 in Budapest, Hungary is a Canadian businessman William Neilson, ( March 16, 1844 - February 10, 1915) was a Canadian businessman and founder of William Neilson Limited. Deane Nesbitt
- Ted Newall
- David P. James Edward (Ted Malcolm Newall (born 20 August 1935) is a Canadian businessman the son of Robert Robertson Newall and Lillian Alice Sheldon O’Brien
- Paul Paré
- Jim Pattison
- Edson Loy Pease
- Pierre Péladeau
- Henri Perron
- Jean-Marie Poitras
- Alfred Powis
- David H. James (Jimmy Allen Pattison, CM, OBC, (born October 1, 1928 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Vancouver -based Pierre Péladeau, OQ ( April 11, 1925 – December 24, 1997) was a Québécois Businessman. Jean-Marie Poitras (born September 5, 1918) is a former Canadian senator. Alfred Powis (born September 16, 1930 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian businessman Race
- James Armstrong Richardson
- Muriel S. James Armstrong Richardson PC ( March 28, 1922 – May 17, 2004) was a Canadian Cabinet minister under Pierre Richardson
- Cedric E. Ritchie
- Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers
- Jean-Baptiste Rolland
- Stephen B. Cedric E Ritchie (born in Upper Kent, New Brunswick) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and CEO of The Bank of Nova Scotia. For other uses see Edward Rogers (disambiguation. Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers Jr Jean-Baptiste Rolland ( 2 January 1815 &ndash 22 March 1888) was a Canadian printer bookseller businessman and politician Roman
- Phillip S. Ross
- John Roth
- Thomas A. John Roth, is the former Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) of Nortel. Russell
- T. A. St-Germain
- Guy Saint-Pierre
- John M. Guy Saint-Pierre CC (born August 3, 1934) is a retired Canadian politician and businessman Schneider
- Gerald W. Schwartz
- Robert Scrivener
- Isadore Sharp
- J. R. Shaw
- Frank H. Gerald W Schwartz OC, born c1940 in Winnipeg Manitoba, is a Canadian businessman Isadore "Issy" Sharp, OC (born October 8, 1931) is a Canadian businessman and founder chairman and CEO of Four Seasons Hotels JR Shaw (born 1934 in Brigden Ontario) is a Canadian Businessman. Sherman
- Clifford Sifton
- George Simpson
- Ian David Sinclair
- Donald A. Smith
- Frank H. Sobey
- William Southam
- Ronald D. Southern
- Sam Steinberg
- Frank Stronach
- Allan R. Taylor
- J. Sir Clifford Sifton PC ( March 10, 1861 &ndash April 17, 1929) was a Canadian politician best known for being Sir George Simpson (1787 &ndash 7 September 1860) was a Scots-Quebecer and employee of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC Ian David Sinclair, OC, QC, BA, LLB, LLD ( December 27 1913 &ndash April 7 2006) was a For other people named Donald Smith see Donald Smith (disambiguation Donald Alexander Smith 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, Frank H Sobey OC (1902 &ndash December 15 1985) was a Canadian businessman who was the primary builder of the Sobeys Stores chain William Southam ( August 23 1843 &ndash February 27 1932) was a Canadian Newspaper Publisher. Ronald D Southern, CC, CBE, LLD (born 1930 is a Canadian businessman Samuel Steinberg, OC, ( 1905 - May 24, 1978) was a Hungarian immigrant to Canada who transformed the grocery store founded Frank H Stronach, CM (born September 6, 1932 as Franz Strohsack) is an Austrian Canadian businessman Allan R Taylor, OC (born 1932 in Prince Albert Saskatchewan) is a Canadian banker Allyn Taylor
- E. P. Taylor
- Roy H. Thomson
- Ted Tilden
- Walter B. Edward Plunket Taylor, ( January 29, 1901 - May 14, 1989) was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of Thoroughbred Sir Roy Herbert Thomson 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet GBE, DLitt, D Tilden
- Noah Timmins
- Antoine Turnel
- Joseph Vachon
- William Cornelius Van Horne
- Max Ward
- R. Noah Anthony Timmins ( March 31, 1867 – January 22, 1936) was a Canadian mining developer and executive who is considered a founding Sir William Cornelius Van Horne KCMG (b February 3 1843 &ndash d Maxwell (Max William Ward (b November 22, 1921, Edmonton, Alberta) pioneering Canadian Aviator and founder of Wardair Howard Webster
- W. Garfield Weston
- Ray D. Willard Garfield Weston ( January 26, 1898 - October 22, 1978) was a Canadian businessman and Philanthropist who also served Wolfe
- Geoffrey H. Wood
- Charles Woodward
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