C. D. Howe
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C. D. Howe 🇺🇸

Minister of Everything (Known as "Clarence Decatur Howe")
Minister of Everything, Mobilizer of Canada's WWII Economy, TCA Founder
Born 15 January 1886 🇺🇸 Waltham, United States
Passed Away 31 December 1960 Montreal, Canada
Lifespan 74 years old
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"If we lose the war, nothing else matters; build the factories and build the ships now."

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Colossal Canadian nation-builder and MIT-trained engineer who mobilized Canada's wartime industry and created Trans-Canada Air Lines (Air Canada) and the CBC.

Biographical Record

Clarence Decatur Howe was an MIT-trained civil engineer who moved to Canada to design massive terminal grain elevators across the prairies. Entering Mackenzie King's cabinet in 1935, Howe earned the legendary moniker "Minister of Everything" for his driving corporate efficiency and state-building power.

Howe created Trans-Canada Air Lines (later Air Canada) in 1937, reorganized the Canadian National Railways, and founded the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). During World War II, as Minister of Munitions and Supply, Howe performed miracles of industrial mobilization, turning Canada into the world's fourth-largest industrial power and producer of aircraft, tanks, and synthetic rubber.

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Mount Royal Cemetery
Montreal, Canada
GPS: 45.5050, -73.5950
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