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Allan Levine on Canada’s ‘Dollar a Year Men’ in World War Two
Did you know that in World War II, Canada’s “best business brains” traded Bay Street boardrooms in support of the country's war effort?
In this episode of History Matters, I sit down with Winnipeg-based historian and author Allan Levine to talk about his new book, The Dollar a Year Men: How the Best Business Brains in Canada Helped to Win the Second World War (Barlow Books, 2025).
We open with a gripping story from December 1940: C.D. Howe, E.P. Taylor, and other Canadian industrialists crossing a U-boat–infested Atlantic, only to see their ship torpedoed and still pressing on to London to…
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