Arthur Child

Arthur James Edward Child OC (19 May 1910 – 30 July 1996) was a British-Canadian businessman who was a senior executive in the meat-packing industry. Child began his career in Toronto in 1931 with Canada Packers and rose to become a vice-president. In 1960 he left the company and became president of Intercontinental Packers in Saskatoon. Child moved to Calgary in 1966 where he became president of Burns Foods. In 1978, Burns became a private company with Child as a 25 per cent owner. Child and the other owners sold the company in 1985, however, in early 1986 he and a new partner reacquired four Burns divisions and organised them into a new business. Child was an 80 per cent owner of the new Burns company and at the time of his death was a multi-billionaire.