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May 19, 1910 Guildford, England, United Kingdom Died on 30 Jul 1996 (aged 86)
Canadian businessperson
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- Arthur James Edward Child, (May 19, 1910 – July 30, 1996) was a Canadian businessman and former chairman and chief executive officer of Burns Foods Limited of Calgary.
- Arthur James Edward Child and his business partner Ron Jackson acquired the food processing and distribution company in a leveraged management buyout in 1986.
- With sales in excess of $1 billion, Burns Foods was involved in meat processing, dairy, food warehousing and distribution, and vegetable processing businesses.
- Over a 12-year period, Arthur James Edward Child and his management team built Burns Foods into a leading Canadian food company with over $1 billion in annual sales.
- Beginning in 1995, a majority of the Burns Foods' subsidiaries were sold generating an exceptional return to the shareholders. Born in Guildford, England, he earned a Bachelor of Commerce in 1931 from Queen's University.
- After working in the food industry, he received a Master of Arts in economics from the University of Toronto. In 1985, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Child was a Reform member and on the board of the Canadian South African Society—a front group supporting apartheid and funded principally by the South African embassy in Ottawa.
- Child is the only Canadian to have received the apartheid regime's medal of honour [2].
