436:, they arranged $ 100,000 worth of financing and billed the event as "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth." Burns then personally owned six ranches with 38,000 head of cattle, 1,500 horses and 20,000 sheep. His company, Burns Foods, had abattoirs in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Prince Albert, and Regina with an overall daily capacity of 1,070 cattle, 6,000 pigs, and 3,000 sheep. Burns's facilities were of the utmost sanitation and technically advanced to a level previously unseen in Western Canada. Facilities were eventually opened in Winnipeg, Seattle, Australia, and Great Britain.
1135:"Patrick Burns: A man of his word Pat burns also used first nations children from Dunbow School in calgary. Dunbow industrial school was made up of children from treaty 6, 7, 8 and of those children the boys were split into two groups. The morning group would do all the haying work for Pat Burn sin the morning while the other group was in class and in the afternoon the groups would switch and the group who was haying for free in the morning would return to class and the other half of the boys would then go to work for free in the fields for Pat Burns. of"
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674:, leaving 6,000 people homeless, he sent carloads of food. He was a staunch supporter of many children’s charities, making sure that the local orphanage was always well-stocked with free high-quality meat. He was an active Catholic but also supported other religious groups. When he was called upon to pay for the painting of a small Catholic church near Calgary, he requested for the Anglican church next door to be painted as well, at his expense, so that it did not look shabby by comparison. He was extremely generous to the
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Calgary, and he used it as a weekend retreat. Today, the house is occupied by
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In honour of his 75th birthday, a huge cake (said at the time to be the world’s largest birthday cake) led the
Stampede parade and was cut and distributed that evening to the city's underprivileged citizens. Also, he celebrated his birthday by giving a 5 lb roast to every family in which the head of
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Burns was able to revolutionize the slaughterhouse industry by emphasizing efficiency in the use of byproducts. Traditionally, much of the animals had been lost to waste, but with his advanced abattoirs, Burns could expand the list of recoverable products, which included leather, fats for soap, bone
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Patrick Burns took special interest to environment conservation. Recognizing the value of the trees in Fish Creek Valley, he directed his foreman to erect fences around the groves of aspen and poplar as protection from the cattle. They also planted 2000 poplars along the MacLeod Trail, adjacent to
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Alberta, and the revenue helped to offset the loss from suspending the provincial sales tax in August 1937.
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Vancouver with the intent of using it for grazing cattle. The property included a significant amount of wetland that was not ideal terrain for cattle grazing and so failed. The land was renamed the
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the house was unemployed and a ticket for a meal at any restaurant in the city to the unmarried unemployed. It was during the
Depression days, and the gifts were much needed; 2000 Calgary families received the roasts and 4000 single unemployed dined out at his expense.
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and the company was renamed Burns & Co. Ltd. In the sale, Burns retained control over his true passion, his vast cattle ranches. At the height of his empire, his assets included nearly 700,000 acres (2,800 km) of ranch land, roughly the size of
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given two oxen as payment. They had a resale value of $ 70, but he saw an alternative. He made $ 140 by slaughtering the animals and reselling their meat and byproducts. That experience was one that he would remember when he was as an entrepreneur.
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for bone meal and manufactured articles, fertilizers, glycerine, hair for brushes, and even an array of pharmaceuticals. Burns joked that the only product not recovered were the pigs' squeals, which could have been sold to politicians.
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project in the province, readers originally nominated 125 people for consideration. A Top 10 list was culminated from months of thought, debate, and votes from the public. Along with Burns, the list included former Premier
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Burns learned to establish a mobile slaughtering facility, which could move easily as the railhead was extended. The success of the contract in Maine led to whole succession of other contracts with Mackenzie and Mann.
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of wealth, he built one of the world's largest integrated meat-packing empires, P. Burns & Co., becoming one of the wealthiest Canadians of his time. He is honoured as one of the
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The Role of Patrick Burns in the Development of Western Canada
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1164:"Best of Alberta. Our Greatest Citizen Announced"
788:Poor, indigent and neglected children of Calgary
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2099:. Vol. XVI (1931–1940) (online ed.).
1810:"Maple Leaf Foods 2020 Annual Information Form"
2142:The Ranche Restaurant at the Bow Valley Ranche
2132:Patrick Burns – Parliament of Canada biography
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2069:. Edmonton, Alta.: University of Alberta.
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1790:Duckworth, Barbara (September 19, 1996).
1442:Cornerstones: Patrick Burns (Manor House)
1381:The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History
176:(July 6, 1856 – February 24, 1937) was a
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1726:Burns made his mark in business, charity
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1792:"Maple Leaf buys major stake in Burns"
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1549:The History of Metropolitan Vancouver
943:Senator Patrick Burns School, Calgary
782:Widows and orphans of members of the
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531:The Bow Valley Ranch House circa 1897
203:western cattle kings who started the
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78:July 6, 1931 – June 1, 1936
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389:In 1901 he married Eileen Ellis of
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2063:Sproule, Albert Frederick (1962).
1749:Sproule, Albert Frederick (1962).
1108:. Historica Canada. Archived from
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635:In 1931, he was appointed to the
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2108:Patrick Burns: A Man of His Word
2096:Dictionary of Canadian Biography
1098:Breen, David H. (May 28, 2008).
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995:Blakeburn Park, Port Coquitlam
979:Burns Industrial Park, Calgary
741:Order of St. Gregory the Great
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2225:Businesspeople in agriculture
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1900:. Calgary Board of Education
1898:Senator Patrick Burns School
892:, Calgary, Alberta, ca. 1906
876:, Calgary, Alberta, ca. 1930
666:devastated the community of
553:Bow Valley Ranche Restaurant
247:Patrick O'Byrne was born in
2235:Businesspeople from Alberta
2230:Businesspeople from Ontario
2113:Patrick Burns's Manor House
2101:University of Toronto Press
1832:. Accessed April 15, 2008.
1826:Cornerstones:Burns Building
1732:. Accessed April 15, 2008.
1448:. Accessed April 15, 2008.
982:Burnsland Cemetery, Calgary
466:Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
416:In 1912, he was one of the
218:covered so vast an area of
210:He made his fortune in the
151:Michael and Bridget O'Byrne
116:February 24, 1937 (aged 80)
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2285:People from Kawartha Lakes
2147:November 12, 2013, at the
2044:Patrick Burns, Cattle King
1850:"Foothill (Burns) Stadium"
1417:"Meat-Processing Industry"
817:Alberta's Greatest Citizen
715:Western Canada High School
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1243:"Pioneers: The Burns Era"
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2250:Canadian philanthropists
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1378:Evans, Simon M. (2004).
1020:Patrick Street, Winnipeg
672:Fernie, British Columbia
470:Foley, Welch and Stewart
195:, and philanthropist. A
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1296:"Senator Patrick Burns"
1005:Burnsland Road, Calgary
958:Delta, British Columbia
784:fire brigade of Calgary
778:police force of Calgary
2167:Prosper-Edmond Lessard
1836:June 21, 2007, at the
1830:Calgary Public Library
1473:cdnrockiesdatabases.ca
1446:Calgary Public Library
917:Burns Block, Vancouver
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1959:"Burnsland Cemetery"
1796:The Western Producer
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1545:"Chronology 1906–08"
1321:Shiels, Bob (1974).
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963:Mount Burns, Alberta
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908:Burns Block, Calgary
719:St. Joseph's College
680:St. Mary's Cathedral
207:in Alberta in 1912.
2137:Burns Memorial Fund
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1650:"Man in Management"
1626:on January 20, 2011
1353:Downs, Art (1971).
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1300:Burns Memorial Fund
1253:on January 21, 2008
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767:Burns Memorial Fund
763:Bow Valley Ranche.
604:Dominion Securities
358:, Cross, and McLean
286:Minnedosa, Manitoba
2300:Canadian cattlemen
2295:Settlers of Canada
2290:People from Oshawa
1894:"About Our School"
1423:. Historica Canada
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