By Michael R. Marrus
The irascible son of a Jewish pioneer from Czarist Russia whose company acumen equipped a global corporation well known for the caliber of its items.
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Marrus, 1991 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ¥ Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Marrus, Michael Robert. Marrus. cm. : Penguin Books Canada, c1991. Includes bibliographical references. Businessmen -- Canada -- Biography. Title. 766352092 -- dc20 [B] 91-31775 CIP Page 5 For Carol Randi Marrus Page 6 By the Same Author THE POLITICS OF ASSIMILATION: The French Jewish Community at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair VICHY FRANCE AND THE JEWS (with Robert O.
One memory was especially vivid: Mindel's heroic effort to build a bake oven such as she had remembered at home in the old country. As Harry recalled, his mother laboriously hauled the stones herself, using a strong apron tied about her waist. Painstakingly, she then attempted to construct the oven, using a wooden frame. Unfortunately, the stones kept collapsing. She built this oven three times, but because she had no knowledge of how to build an arch, and did not realize it was necessary to let the arch dry long enough so that it would stand up after a fire had been put in it, she proceeded to put a fire in the oven which would burn the wooden stays that had been erected inside for holding up such a thing, allowing the oven to fall.
Note that this is an important industry. As writer Hugh MacLennan once observed, apart from the CPR and the mining and forest industries, from the earliest beginnings of British North America the most successful and permanent businesses were brewing and distilling. 1 But these were not businesses like all the others. Public condemnation of alcohol consumption is older than Canada itself, and reached a crescendo of popular enthusiasm in the early part of Sam's career, when he turned his family whisky business into a formidable economic force.