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Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, around 1918. Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook · M. S. Kay, Bolton · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, was an important and controversial Canadian financier and the outspoken owner of a British newspaper empire. In the First World War he shaped how Canada’s effort was seen and remembered through the war art program; as Britain’s Minister of Aircraft Production in the Second World War he drove Spitfire production, and he was a leading benefactor of the University of New Brunswick and founder of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

Scope & context

Beaverbrook as described in his designation.

Sources behind this record

Sir William Maxwell Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

Importance; plaque text