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Birth

Born in Ottawa, Ontario into a wealthy family, Taylor graduated from Montreal's McGill University in 1922 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Pursuing a business career, he used a brewery business (Brading Brewery) inherited from his grandfather, Charles Magee, as the vehicle to merge more than 20 other small breweries into the giant Canadian Breweries Limited while in the process of building one of Canada's largest and most successful industrial empires. This article is about the capital city of Canada. ... Motto: Concordia Salus Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 City Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area    - City 366. ... McGill University is a publicly funded, non-denominational, co-educational research university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ...

Business

During World War II, he was a volunteer executive in the Canadian government's war effort. He came close to losing his life when, in December of 1940, the ship he was on was torpedoed while crossing the Atlantic. He and others on the sinking ship were rescued by a captain who broke regulations to pick them up. At war's end, E.P. Taylor founded Argus Corporation, becoming the investment company's majority shareholder by rolling Canadian Breweries stock into the new entity. Over the years, he gained control of many of his country’s greatest companies such as Canadian Food Products, Massey-Harris, Orange Crush, Standard Chemical, Dominion Stores, British Columbia Forest Products Limited, Domtar Paper, Standard Broadcasting, and Hollinger Mines Limited. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Look up Atlantic Ocean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Argus Corporation, based in Toronto, Ontario, is an investment and holding company founded in 1945 by Bud McDougald. ... A Massey-Ferguson 135. ... Dominion refers to two separate upscale supermarket chains in Canada. ... Catalyst Paper Corporation was founded in 1946 as British Columbia Forest Products Limited. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Standard Broadcasting Corporation is a Canadian radio broadcasting company. ... Hollinger Mine A mining company called Hollinger Gold Mine was discovered by Benny Hollinger in Timmins, Ontario and in 1910 the company was incorporated by Noah Timmins and partners. ...

Thoroughbred Racing

Despite his business successes, E.P. Taylor is most remembered as the owner of Windfields Farm, a thoroughbred horse breeding operation that produced Northern Dancer, the greatest sire of the 20th century. By 1970, Taylor was the world's leading horse breeder in terms of money won. He was President of the Ontario Jockey Club from 1953 to 1973 where he consolidated the numerous money-losing tracks throughout the Province of Ontario into fewer, but viable businesses. He was voted Racing's Man of the Year in 1973 and the following year was elected to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. In 1977 and 1983 he was named the winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder as the leading Thoroughbred breeder in North America. Windfields Farm is a 1,500 acre (6 km²) thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. ... Northern Dancer (May 27, 1961 - November 16, 1990) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English Flower White Trillium Tree Eastern White Pine Bird Common Loon Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total... Canadas Sports Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame established in 1955 to preserve the record of Canadian sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canadas heritage of sport[1]. As of June 2004, there were 436 inductees. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor for breeders. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

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Residences

In the early part of the 1960’s E.P. Taylor moved his main residence to Lyford Cay in the Bahamas, taking advantage of the warm climate and its inheritance tax laws. He died there in 1989 at the age of 88. His son, the journalist and author, Charles Taylor, died in 1997. Windfields Estate was the home of E.P. Taylor and was situated at 2489 Bayview Avenue in North York Ontario. It is now the site of The Canadian Film Centre. The 25 acre estate has been preserved as a heritage site. The British Royal family often stayed at Windfields when they visited Toronto. The last royals to stay at 2489 Bayview were the Queen Mother in the summer of 1974 and Prince Charles and Princess Diana. There were two maids, two gardeners and a house manager who worked at the residence. The Head Gardener was James (Jimmy) Allan and the Greenhouse Gardener was Wayne Ray. Lyford Cay - The area was reclaimed from swamp land in the late 1950s by Canadian industrialist E.P. Taylor, with the dream of building an exclusive community. ... This article or section reads like an advertisement. ... The title Queen Mother is a title reserved for a widowed Queen consort whose son/daughter from that union is the reigning monarch. ... Prince Charles may refer to: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, current heir-apparent to the British throne Any of the previous British royals named Charles, Prince of Wales The former Belgian regent, Prince Charles of Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Spencer) (1 July 1961–31 August 1997), commonly, but incorrectly, known as Princess Diana, was for fifteen years the wife of HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. ... Wayne Scott Ray (born 1950 in Alabama) is a Canadian poet. ...

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