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BEAVER PASSES; PROVINCE MOURNS - <br /> The people of Chatham and the entire Miramichi area yesterday joined with millions of people all across Canada and throughout the world, in mourning the death of Lord BEAVERBROOK, who passed away at his home near Leatherhead, Surrey, England, just 15 days after his 85th birthday. Born in Maple, Ont., son of the late Rev. William AITKEN, he came to Newcastle at an early age and grew to manhood on the banks of the Miramichi. He was born William Max AITKEN, one of 10 children of Rev. William Cuthbert AITKEN, a Presbyterian minister on May 25, 1879, at Maple, Ont., just outside of Toronto. - <br /> MOVED TO NEWCASTLE - <br /> With his family, he moved to Newcastle as a child and received his grade school education at Harkins Academy. His teacher described him as a born imp of mischief who will become a leader of a man. His fantastic leap to wealth began when he became secretary to John P. Stairs, Halifax financer. By 1906, he had moved to Montreal and floated the $38,000,000 cement merger which started him on the way to fortune. <br /> In the same year, he married Gladys DRURY, of a family socially prominent in the Maritimes. They had three children: Hon. Max AITKEN, Peter AITKEN and Janet Gladys. Peter died in 1947. BEAVERBROOKs first wife died in 1927 and a year ago he married Lady DUNN, widow of Sr. James DUNN, the multi-millionaire Canadian steel magnate who died in 1956. They had been associated for many years with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. <br /> A millionaire by the time he was 30, BEAVERBROOK moved to Britain in 1910, was elected to the Commons almost as soon as he landed, developed as a power behind the scenes in British politics and became a peer six years later. - <br /> NEWSPAPER EMPIRE - <br /> He turned to newspaper work and took over a dying morning newspaper, the Daily Express, and literally breathed new life into it. He founded the Sunday Express in 1921 and several years later acquired a controlling interest in the Evening Standard, making his group one of the most powerful newspaper empires in Britain. He attained his greatest stature in the ominous months of 1940 when the German war machine was overrunning much of Europe. Winston Churchill called him into his cabinet as minister of war production and BEAVERBROOK fired the British aircraft industry with the vigour that produced enough planes for the crucial Battle of Britain waged over London skies later that year. Before resigning from the cabinet in 1942, he served as minister of supply, minister of state and minister of war production. But his war service did not end there. He carried on in Washington as Britains brain in the problem of pooling war resources with the United Nations. Before the war ended, he also served as lord privy seal. In the First World War he served for the first three years of that conflict in France as a representative of the Canadian government. - <br /> PHILANTHROPIST - <br /> After the Second World War Lord BEAVERBROOK turned to philanthropy on a large scale and the chief beneficiary was the province of New Brunswick, where he had spent his childhood. Though a native of Ontario, he always regarded New Brunswick as his home territory. The Beaverbrook Centre [a combined Town Hall and social centre] and the Lord Beaverbrook Arena at St. Thomas University, stand as lasting memorials to his generosity in Chatham. <br /> EXTENDS SYMPATHY - <br /> When word of Lord BEAVERBROOKs death was received here yesterday morning, His Worship Mayor Wm. J. Kerr, immediately cabled to Lady BEAVERBROOK the heartfelt sympathy of the Town Council and citizens of Chatham. <br /> The impression is correct that Lord BEAVERBROOK had expressed a wish to be laid to rest in this area, possibly in St. James Cemetery, Newcastle, where his parents and several relatives are buried, but at noon today neither Rev. S.R. Purchase nor His Worship Mayor J. Donald Whalen had been advised in this regard. <br /> Premier Louis J. Robichaud yesterday paid tribute to the memory of Lord BEAVERBROOK. <br /> Source: The Commercial World - June 10, 1964
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