A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
successfully through the dark days of its early experience, and won out.
In 1911 he became a director of the Corporation, and his active interest
in the management resulted in his being made chairman of the finance and
selling committees of the directorate. Mr. Workman is also the
Vice-President of the Federal Parquetry Company, of Lexington, Ky.;
vice-president of the Jacobs Asbestos Company, Ltd., of Thetford Mines,
Que., and is interested in the B. Gardner Company, of Montreal. While
the success that came to Mr. Workman brought him great wealth and
influence, his business activities did not prevent a generous and
personal interest in many charitable works, his yearly benefactions to
worthy causes and individuals being estimated at fifty to sixty thousand
dollars. He is a life Governor of the Montreal General Hospital and
other hospitals and charitable institutions, to the funds of which he is
a liberal contributor. He has given most generously to the Patriotic
Fund and to the various regimental funds, and was a subscriber to the
extent of $200,000 to the Canadian War Loan. Mr. Workman is also
prominent in philanthropic work among the Jewish population of Canada
and is president and actual upbuilder of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium for
fighting the white plague. A sample of his deep interest in the race was
his remarkable response to the appeal of Mr. Leopold Rothschild since
the outbreak of the war on behalf of Jewish sufferers in Russia. Mr.
Workman forwarded an immediate cash contribution of $5,000, with an
appended offer to supplement that gift by the subscription of $1,000 per
month. Mr. Workman married, when twenty years of age, Miss Rachel Lewis,
of Syracuse, N.Y., on February 18, 1886. He has one son, Edward, a
Lieut. in the Canadian overseas army, and four daughters, Mrs. Nathan
Gordon, of Montreal; Mrs. Harry Rosenthal, of Ottawa, and the Misses
Nina and Daisy Workman. He is a member of the Masonic and the Royal
Guardians.
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