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H. H. Couzens

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operations. He managed the integration of the different streetcar networks into one unified system, and oversaw the extensive rebuilding and reequipping of the TTC that took place throughout the early 1920s.
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to England to work for the firm, and was knighted that same year. He returned to Toronto, Canada in 1941 as president of the company.
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Couzens resigned his positions as general manager of Toronto Hydro and of the TTC in 1924, and joined the
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Seven years later, in September 1920, he also became the first General Manager of the
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In 1944, on a business trip to Brazil, he became ill and later died in
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in London, England, when he was recruited in 1913 to head the new
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Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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H. D. Couzens

Totnes
Ilford
Taunton School
KBE
Brazil
Totnes
Taunton School
West Ham
Toronto Hydro Electric Commission
Toronto
Ontario
Toronto Transportation Commission
street railway
Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Co.
Rio de Janeiro
Ilford
Who's who in Canada: An Illustrated Biographical Record of Men and Women of the Time, Volumes 6-7
http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/15387/pages/416/page.pdf
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Sir Herbert Couzens, K.B.E."
The Gazette
Toronto Transportation Commission
D.W. Harvey
Categories
1877 births
1944 deaths
Toronto Transit Commission general managers

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