Campeau reshapes takeovers with Allied Stores purchase
Canadian developer Robert Campeau built a real estate empire and in a record move bought 48 percent of Allied Stores in one day, forming the largest U.S. company takeover by a Canadian. The bid sparked Wall Street debate on new methods while recalling Campeau’s 1990 clash with Royal Trust and the Toronto Dominion era.
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Bob Campeau
Campeau
Toronto
Harbour Castle
Sudbury
Allied
Wall Street Journal
Canada
U.S
Royal Trust
Toronto Dominion Bank
Reichmann Brothers
Ontario Securities Commission
Ken White
John Scholes
God Bless the Country Correspondents and Prairie Memories
A tribute to country correspondents like Jacquie Ryan of the Assiniboia Times who collect local happenings from homemakers. The piece recalls prairie history including a 1930s aid gift of salt cod, and a later reconnect between Doris Kabrud and Mildred Waugh, fifty years and three thousand miles apart.
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Jacquie Ryan
Rockglen
Assiniboia
Jacquie
Maritimes
Prairies
Kabrud
Mildred Waugh
Wilmot Valley
Pei
Doris
Irene Kabrud
Doris Kabrud
Ellenberger
Waugh
Charlottetown
Wilmot
Mildred
Saskatchewan
John Archer
John
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