Dorothy J. Killam
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Dorothy J. Killam was an American-born Canadian philanthropist. She was the wife of Canadian financier Izaak Walton Killam. When he died in 1955 she inherited his fortune and continued to build it unt
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James Hamet Dunn
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Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet was a Canadian financier and industrialist during the first half of the 20th century. He is recognized chiefly for his 1935 rescue and subsequent 20-year presidency a
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…in 2025). Approximately half of this amount went to the Canadian government as estate tax. The government realized a similar sum from the estate of Sir James Dunn, who died less than six months later. The combined tax windfall of $85 million, with an additional $15 million from the government, was used to launch…
The SS Norgoma was launched in 1950, one year prior to the Dunn takeover of CSL.
One of seventeen portraits by Sir William Orpen, which were commissioned by Dunn, of the settlors of the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919: William Ferguson Massey, at the time Premier of New Zealand.
Dayspring, Dunn's home at St. Andrews.
A fountain in Dunn's honor was gifted by Lord Beaverbrook to the city of Fredericton.