Tim Horton, Ron Joyce – investors of Tim Horton’s

John Molson – Molson’s brewery

Harrison and Wallace McCain – McCain food products (worlds largest producer of French fries among other things)

Sam Sniderman – Sam the Record Man

Robert Landos – Created Alliance Communications (Film/TV producer – Crash, Due South, etc)

Scott Abbott and Chris Haney – investors of Trival Persuit game.

What about inventors that lead to BIG business world wide?

Alexander Graham Bell – Telephone

Henry Woodward/Mathew Evans – co-inventor of the first electric light bulb

J. Brown – inventor of the washing machine

Thomas Carroll – invested the first self-propelled combine harvester

Charles Fenerty – invested the pulp to paper process.

James Gosling – invented Java computer language.

Samual McKeen – invesnted the Odometer in your car.

Gideon Sunback – invested the zipper.

Harry Wasyluk/LArry Hanson – invested green plastic garbage bags
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