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this is for you
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Samuel Bronfman (27 February 1889 - 10 July 1971): was a businessman who, in 1928, acquired Joseph E. Seagram & Sons of Waterloo. He renamed the company Seagram Co. Ltd. and built an empire based on the appeal of brand names, becoming an international distributor of alcoholic beverages.
In 1952, he established the Samuel and Sadie Bronfman Family Foundation, one of Canada's major private granting foundations. Bronfman was President of the Canadian Jewish Congress from 1939 to 1962, and he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1967. In 1971, he helped to establish the Bronfman Building at McGill University. The building was named in his honour as appreciation for his donation to the university. The Bronfman family has continued its support of the university; in 1993 they created the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and in 2002 donated the Seagram Building on Sherbrooke St. to McGill. The Bronfman Archaeology Wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Israel, is named for Samuel Bronfman and his wife.
And by the way, he was a Mason!