K. C. Irving

Kenneth Colin Irving, OC (14 March 1899 – 13 December 1992) was a Canadian billionaire and businessman who founded a family empire spread across energy, logging and media interests, with an immense generations-long impact on the Canadian province of New Brunswick, leading the New Brunswick journalist John Edward Belliveau to assert that “No individual in any single Canadian province has ever held so much raw economic power” as Irving did. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.