lord beaverbrook

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Period: Jan 1, 1875 to Jun 9, 1969

http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/beaverbrook.htm
http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/after-the-war/history/lord-beaverbrook/ http://www.beaverbrookfoundation.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Aitken,_Lord_Beaverbrook

lord beaverbrook

May 25, 1879

Born maple, ontario canada

Halifax

Jan 4, 1900

In 1900, Aitken made his way to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where John F. Stairs, part of the city's dominant business family, gave him employment and trained him in the business of finance.

Royal securities corporation

Apr 1, 1904

In 1904, when Stairs launched the Royal Securities Corporation, Aitken became a minority shareholder and the firm's general manager.

reckoning

Jan 1, 1906

By 1906, by his own reckoning, he was worth $700,000. He continued to manipulate the markets and create mergers – of which the largest and perhaps most lucrative was the Canadian cement merger – drawing censure on more than one occasion from the Canadian authorities

Montreal engineering company

Mar 10, 1907

In 1907 he founded the Montreal Engineering Company.

calgary power company

Feb 13, 1909

• In 1909, also under the umbrella of his Royal Securities Company, Aitken founded the Calgary Power Company Limited, now the TransAlta Corporation, and oversaw the building of the Horseshoe Falls hydro station.

raise capital

Mar 1, 1910

Ostensibly to raise capital for the acquisition of a steel company.but it was to politics that he turned to.

Great britain

Dec 10, 1910

He left Canada in 1910 for Great Britain where he was soon knighted, elected as a member of parliament, and began to purchase newspapers.

Conservative party

Dec 10, 1910

In 1910 he took up a seat in the House of Commons,where he represented Ashton-under-Lyne for the Conservative party.

War

Dec 10, 1914

But when war broke out in August 1914 he was not invited to join the War Cabinet

Canadian forces

May 5, 1915

In May 1915 Aitken was appointed as the Canadian force's official records officer

Eye witness

Dec 10, 1915

Early in 1915 as a journalist attached to Canadian forces (as 'Canadian Eye Witness').

canadian war

Jan 18, 1916

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•In early 1916, Beaverbrook established the Canadian War Records Office using his own funds

peerage

Dec 9, 1917

Atkin was offered a peerage. if he had not exaclty asquiths head on the block.

Minsiter

Dec 10, 1918

appointed to the London government on 10 February 1918, as Minister of Information

death

Jun 9, 1969

Died Cherkley Court, Leatherhead, United Kingdom.