Maxwell Meighen

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Maxwell Charles Gordon Meighen (born June 5, 1908 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada-died February 5, 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a Canadian financier and son of late Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen.

Meighen graduated from the Royal Military College and the University of Toronto, then served in World War II. He then took over the investment companies founded by his Father. As chairman and director of Canadian General Investments Ltd, in 1961 he entered the consortium of financiers, headed by Bud McDougald, that owned the Argus Corporation. As an Argus director he was also a member of the boards of some of the largest Canadian companies, including Domtar, Massey-Ferguson, Dominion Stores and Hollinger Mines. Meighen resigned from Argus in 1978, when it was taken over by Montegu and Conrad Black and Henry N. R. Jackman. He later became chairman and director of Canadian General Investments Ltd.