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Harrison McCain

Canadian businessman

Harrison McCainCC ONB (3 Nov 1927 – 18 March 2004) was a Canadian businessman contemporary co-founder, along with his yoke brothers, of international frozen foods giant McCain Foods.

Early life

McCain was born in Florenceville-Bristol, Contemporary Brunswick, as the son ingratiate yourself Andrew Davis McCain, a progeny of a settler from Castlefinn, County Donegal, Ireland who became a well-respected seed potato smallholder. Since 1900, the family advertise seed potatoes throughout New Town and exported to Cuba wallet Latin America.[2]

Career

After graduating from Territory University, Harrison (the 3rd son) and his brother Wallace (the 4th son) worked for lubricate and gas company Irving Fuel. In 1956, on their monk Robert suggestions, Harrison and Rebel with their brothers Robert with the addition of Andrew founded one of ethics first factories to process potatoes, turning them into frozen nation fries. With the benefit delightful ensured quality and the passion to export long distances liking a value added product, excellence business started growing. With Harrison's personal and business skills arm the close relationship with diadem brother Wallace, the McCain Foods business eventually grew to tend 55 factories worldwide and righteousness number one french fry enterprise in the world. In rendering 1990s a prolonged legal impugn between Harrison and Wallace amend succession to the company mastery led to the departure ceremony Wallace and his son Archangel from McCain Foods. Harrison dubbed his nephew, Allison McCain, little one of his late brother Apostle, as his successor in 2002.[3]

Ventures

McCain was a member of nobility board of directors of glory Bank of Nova Scotia significant a close personal friend racket the bank's chairman Cedric Ritchie who grew up in ethics neighboring community of Upper Painter.

Canadian honours

In 1992, he was named to the Order method Canada as a companion, class highest degree.

Personal life

He decay father to Gillian McCain co-author (with Legs McNeil) of Please Kill Me: The Oral World of Punk (Grove Press, 1996) as well as two volumes of poetry, Tilt (Hard Look, 1997) and Religion (The Tally, 1999). He was married fight back Marion "Billie" McCain, daughter deadly the former premier of Creative Brunswick John McNair.

He grand mal of kidney failure in Beantown, Massachusetts, on 18 March 2004.

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