Peter Frederick Bronfman (October 2, 1929 – December 1, 1996) was a Canadian

Canada

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 businessman and entrepreneur, born in Montreal

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, and member of the Toronto branch of Canada's wealthy Bronfman family

Bronfman family

The Bronfman family is a Canadian Jewish family. It owes its initial fame to Samuel Bronfman , who made a fortune in the alcoholic distilled beverage business during the 20th century through the family's Seagram Company. The family is of Russian Jewish and Romanian Jewish ancestry...

. He attended the elite Lawrenceville School

Lawrenceville School

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 in New Jersey

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, one of the oldest prep school

University-preparatory school

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s in America, and received his bachelor's degree

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 from Yale University

Yale University

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 in 1952.

Career

Bronfman was the co-founder (with his brother, Edward Bronfman

Edward Bronfman

Edward Maurice Bronfman was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and member of the Bronfman family....

) of Edper Group Limited. He and his brother also owned the Montreal Canadiens

Montreal Canadiens

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 from 1971–1978, winning four Stanley Cup

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s with the team 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978.

Bronfman also owned Labatt Brewing Company

Labatt Brewing Company

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 which owned the Toronto Blue Jays

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 when they won their world series titles in 1992 and 1993.

Personal life and Legacy

On November 14, 1996, Bronfman was made an Officer of the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

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. It was presented posthumously in 1997.

Bronfman died of cancer on December 1, 1996.

York University's

York University

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 Schulich School of Business

Schulich School of Business

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 in Toronto, Canada has its business library named after him.http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/BG/index.htm

Further reading

• Peter C. Newman, "Peter Bronfman: The gentle, lonely tycoon", Maclean's magazine (December 16, 1996)
• Susan Gittins, Behind Closed Doors: The Rise and Fall of Canada's Edper Bronfman and Reichman Empires (1995)
• Patricia Best and Ann Shortell, The Brass Ring: Power, Influence and the Brascan Empire (1988)

External links

• The Bronfman Family on the Canadian Encyclopedia

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