Toronto Exchange

"but by the time he left there were twenty-five. Wallace spent a great deal of time with Harrison and Billie while in Saint John. The topic of conversation, more often than not, was how to go into business for themselves. They both wanted to follow in their father’s footsteps. They looked at different possibilities – opening a hardware store, a dry cleaning business, and even buying a seat on the Toronto or Montreal Exchange. They could not, however, settle on what direction they should take. Harrison’s decision to throw caution to the wind and quit Irving Oil forced the issue for him. After all, start- ing his own business had always been his overriding objective."