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Charles Bronfman
Canadian politician
Charles Bronfman, PC CC (born June 27, 1931) is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist[1] and is a member of the Canadian JewishBronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023, Bronfman was ranked by Forbes as the 1,217th wealthiest person in the world.[2]
Biography
Bronfman was born into a Jewish family in Montreal. He is the son of Samuel Bronfman and Saidye Rosner Bronfman. He has two older sisters, the art patron Baroness Aileen "Minda" Bronfman de Gunzberg, and architecture expert and developer Phyllis Lambert. His older brother, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., was his fellow co-chair of Seagram. Edgar Bronfman Jr. is Edgar's son. He was educated at Selwyn House School in Montreal, Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, and McGill University. Bronfman said he is Canadian in his heart but sought his dual citizenship in order to vote in the United States.[3][4]
Business career
Bronfman held various positions in the family's liquor empire, Sea
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Charles Bronfman
Montréal Expos’ owner Charles R. Bronfman, wearing his familiar uniform number 83 at spring training, West Palm Beach, Florida, March 1969. (McCord Museum, Montréal)
For 22 years, the name Charles Bronfman was synonymous with major-league baseball in Montréal. As the son of immigrants who made their fortune in the whiskey trade, Charles made a name for himself in his own right. At the age of 37, he raised the funds required to obtain an expansion baseball franchise in the National League. The Expos under Charles’s stewardship put an entertaining product on the field in spite of the external forces of baseball economics and national unity politics. His baseball days behind him, he applied his values as a Canadian and as a Jew to improve the lives of others.
The saga of the Bronfmans originated in the town of Otaci, in the region of Bessarabia, in the Russian Empire. In 1880 Yechiel Bronfman married the former Mindel Elman.1 The Bronfmans were tobacconists, and although they grew quite wealthy, their affluence was no match for the pr
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Charles Bronfman
Charles Bronfman says the proudest moment of his life was in 1992 at the Sky Dome in Toronto, where he threw the first pitch at the first World Series baseball game ever played outside of the United States. "Then, the next afternoon, I found myself at the Governor General's being invested as a member of the Queen's Privy Council," says Bronfman leaning back in his chair behind his desk at his home office in Jerusalem's upscale Catamon neighborhood. The sun poured in through the window as he basked in the joy of one of his fondest memories. "Then, at 5:00 p.m. that night, I was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. It was an amazing 24 hours and it all started off with that first pitch," he smiles a warm and compelling smile. "I will never forget it."
A proud Canadian, the 72-year-old, Montreal-born heir to the Seagram liquor empire has done a lot with his good fortune. By age 23, the businessman-at-heart was head of the Seagram Co. Ltd. Thomas Adams division. By age 37, he was the principal owner of the Montreal Expos, th
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