Lifestyle
Although a workaholic, Sir James Dunn knew how to enjoy the money he had earned. He was one of the first businessman to acquire a Douglas DC-3 as a private business aircraft in which he traveled frequently between his homes in Europe and Canada. He maintained a vast wine cellar from the vineyards of France and frequented New York city and Broadway where he was a friend of television host Ed Sullivan.
In 1956, at the age of 81, Sir James Dunn died at his home in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. In commemoration of his birthday, in the same year, Lady Dunn privately published The Ballad of a Bathurst Boy: 1874-1956, a celebration of her late husband's life in verse. Printed by the University of New Brunswick Press in Fredericton, NB, it was sent to friends and family of Dunn. In 1961, Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) published a detailed biography of his late friend, titled Courage: The Story of Sir James Dunn. The most complete telling of Dunn's life and business career is available in: Duncan McDowall, Steel at the Sault: Francis H. Clergue, Sir James Dunn and the Algoma Steel Corporation 1901-1956 (Toronto:University of Toronto Press, hb 1984 & pb 1988).
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