controlling stake to the Reform party. Jaffray and financier George Albertus Cox bought about half of Anne’s
Cox as vice-presidents, and Fisher as musical director and secretary. His shareholders included Henry Mill Pellatt*, John
became friends with fellow operators George Albertus Cox and Harvey Prentice Dwight, whom he would later join
Cox*; Alexander MacLean]. The encroachment of these “pelagic poachers” alarmed American land-based
General Electric Company Limited (with Nicholls, George Albertus Cox, Robert
million, reported him to be Toronto’s richest man after George Albertus Cox, Sir William Mackenzie
Cox in St Vincent Township, Ont., and they had seven daughters and one son; d. 23 July 1913 in Prescott, Ariz., and was buried in Port Arthur (Thunder Bay
Van Horne of Montreal, and George Albertus Cox of Toronto, he could not afford to have too
Cox. Early in 1892 a comparable project for the Montreal Street Railway developed under Forget’s leadership and involved Mackenzie, Ross, Van
on which to put up a building specially designed for La Presse. Federal politicians, including Laurier and Senator George Albertus Cox, used their connections to enable him to consolidate
Albertus Cox, and served as a director of Bell Telephone, British America Assurance, Canada Life Assurance
*, capitalist George Albertus Cox, and others in Toronto’s financial community. To take advantage of lax Canadian laws relating to securities and corporations, and to reassure investors, an Ontario charter was
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