He is credited with saving Burns Foods from bankruptcy and making it into the second-largest meat packer in the country. He was president and chief executive officer for Burns 1966-86 and until the year of his death was chairman and CEO and owned 59% of the company's shares. He was a founder and chairman of the Canada West Foundation and author of Economics and Politics in US Banking (1965). Child, with Ronald Jackson, bought a group of meat packing companies in 1986 for $52.5 million, with Child being the majority shareholder. A staunch Reform Party supporter, he backed Stan Waters in his fight for a senate seat. After Child's death, Burns Foods, which had $1 billion in sales, sold its fresh pork and prepared meat operations to Maple Leaf Foods Inc. Child was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995.
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Arthur James Edward Child
Published Online May 28, 2008
Last Edited March 7, 2014