McCain

"Harrison McCain, regarding the McCain fleet of aircraft. “Stan,” McCain told him. “I cannot give you the numbers that justify these aircraft, but I could not build this empire without them.”"

"They include the McCain brothers, whose firm dispenses frozen potatoes from Nova Scotia around the world;"

"period, or before the cash ran out. The first order of business was to find money to build the plant and the cold storage facility. They did what many aspiring entrepreneurs do – they sought help from a bank. In their case, they went to the local branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia, the bank that their father and grandfather had done business with, and applied for a line of credit of $150,000. As luck would have it, the bank’s president, Horace Inman, was visit- ing the branch while Harrison and Wallace were making their pitch. Inman spotted them, went over to introduce himself, asked who they were and why they were there. The brothers gave him a brief outline of their business plan. Inman told Harrison and Wallace to sit tight and wait for a few minutes. Very shortly he came out of the branch man- ager’s office and told them that they had the money and were now in business. Inman knew the McCain family from his time as bank super- visor in New Brunswick. He explained, “Your grandfather did business with this bank. He owed this bank a lot of money, and when he owed it he was broke. But your father paid all the money back. We never lost a nickel from any McCain.”1 Despite the line of credit and the $100,000 the McCain brothers"

"thing. Building one from scratch was quite another. By the time Wallace arrived, the McCain brothers had a fair idea of the challenges ahead. Yet neither Harrison nor Wallace ever lost faith. I once asked Harrison if he ever regretted leaving a secure, well-paying job with Irving. “Christ, no,” he said, “no sense looking back. We were in it and that was that. Best years of our lives, best years of our lives.”"