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About the Book | |||||||||||||||||||
Nowhere in the history of the Maritime provinces is there a more colourful or controversial character than Halifax-born industrialist, Ralph Pickard Bell (1886-1975). With an iron will and a vocabulary as foul as his temper, he triumphantly presided over some of the most influential businesses of his time - The Lockeport Company, the shipping firm of Pickford and Black, The Halifax Insurance Company and, perhaps most notably, National Sea Products Ltd. which, upon its inception in 1945, became the largest and most powerful fish company on the Eastern seaboard. From Bell's high-profile second marriage to New Brunswick heiress, Marjorie Young Smith of Shediac, to his celebrated stint as Mount Allison University's inaugural chancellor, "Ralph Pickard Bell: A Biography" provides an intriguing look at both the personal and professional highs and lows of one of Canada's most fascinating figures. |
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". . . a balanced, warts-and-all portrait of an important Maritime entrepreneur and philanthropist." - W. G. Godfrey, Professor of History, Mount Allison University |
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