Business
- Hugh Allan, shipping company operator
- H. Montagu Allan, businessman
- Laurent Beaudoin, CEO of Bombardier
- Conrad Black, media mogul
- Charles Bronfman, investor, developer
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr., investor, distiller
- Samuel Bronfman, distiller
- Donald J. Carty, airline executive
- André Chagnon, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Thomas Cleeve, food producer
- Jean Coutu, retail pharmacy chain
- Alphonse Desjardins father of Credit Unions in America
- Marie-Josée Drouin, economist
- Alexander Galt, businessman, statesman
- Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
- Bernard Lemaire, businessman and engineer
- Jean-Louis Lévesque, financier
- William Christoper Macdonald, tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
- John Wilson McConnell, publisher, philanthropist
- James McGill, fur trader, real estate investor
- John Molson, brewer, transportation pioneer
- Hartland Molson, brewer, sportsman, statesman
- Pierre Péladeau, media mogul
- John Redpath, developer, opened first sugar refinery in Canada
- Martin Schwartz, consumer products
- Denis Stairs, Chairman, Montreal Engineering Co.
- Sam Steinberg, grocery store magnate
- Donald Tarlton, record producer, promoter
- Colin Webster, industrialist, philanthropist
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