Clue 1- His name still sits atop the city.
Clue 2- He's been dead for like 40 years but Tony Proudfoot keeps saying his name.
Clue 3- A well-known local building bears his name.
Clue 4-He's from a family of prominent beverage makers.
Time's up. His name is Percival Talbot Molson. He's not the original Percival Molson who paid the $75,000 construction costs for the football stadium named after him in 1919. Pete, or P.T., as he was called, turned down a Rhodes Scholarship in favour of a Navy posting. He got into the foreign service as was posted to the Canadian High Commission in London. He met and married Englishwoman Lucille Holmes and returned to Canada in 1950. He left the foreign service and joined the family firm in 1953.
July 1, 1966 he was named President of Molson Breweries and had to haul his stuff back from Toronto where he had been heading the Ontario division.
His wife Lucille refused to come back with him and demanded a divorce. This triggered one of his many bouts of depression.
On 10 September he went up to his country house alone. On 12 September 1966, Percival Molson, 49, shot himself through the back of the throat with a shotgun inside his solarium. The coroner classified it as an accident.
Nice clue. Could it be one of the Allan clan of the Allan Memorial (Ravenscrag)?
ReplyDeleteThe only name I can think of in relation to Tony Proudfoot is Lou Gehrig. I don't think there's a Mtl connection there, though. Or is there?
ReplyDeleteDamn....Molson? Dow? Tell me!
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