The Commander - The Life and Times of Harry Steele

One of the great entrepreneurial success stories of Newfoundland and Canada, Steele was born in Musgrave Harbour, an isolated outport on the eastern coast of Newfoundland. He went to university, joined the naval reserve, and became a lieutenant commander in the Royal Canadian Navy, and bought control of struggling Eastern Provincial Airways. He made it a success and sold it to Canadian Pacific Airlines several years later.

List of contents

Introduction

1. Musgrave Harbour

2. A Kickstart from Joey Smallwood

3. In the Navy

4. Family Life

5. Stock Market Investor

6. Seymour Schulich

7. Eastern Provincial Airways

8. Making a Go of It

9. The Pilots' Strike

10. Travel with CP Air

11. Clarke Transport

12. The Media Play

13. Cleaning House: Corporate Re-organization

14. Craig Dobbin

15. Universal Helicopters

16. Catherine Thornhill Steele

17. Fishing Tales

18. Harry, the Man

Acknowledgements

Image Credits

Index

About the author

Fred Langan is a writer and journalist and was host of the CBC nightly business news. He splits his time between Toronto and Knowlton, Quebec.

Summary

From his humble beginnings in Musgrave Harbour, Harry Steele became one of Newfoundland's most successful entrepreneurs.

Product details

• Authors: Fred Langan
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781459744622
• ISBN: 978-1-4597-4462-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Unternehmensführung, Unternehmensgründung, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Biography / Autobiography