Colonel Sir Albert Edward Gooderham, KCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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 (June 2 1861 in Toronto - April 25 1935) was a Canadian financier

Financier

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, soldier

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, and philanthropist

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. His grandfather was brewer William Gooderham.

Gooderham founded the Canadian Academy of Music

Canadian Academy of Music

The Canadian Academy of Music was a Canadian music conservatory in Toronto, Ontario that was actively providing higher education in music during the first half of the 20th century. The school was founded in 1911 by Albert Gooderham who financed the school out of his own personal fortune and served...

 in 1911, and invited Luigi von Kunits

Luigi von Kunits

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 to Canada to teach at the Academy. In 1929, Gooderham survived the stock market crash

Wall Street Crash of 1929

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 with his fortune largely intact; during the financial crisis that followed, he kept the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Toronto Symphony Orchestra

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 from bankruptcy.

He was also the chairman of the Ontario branch of the Red Cross, and donated land for the establishment of Connaught Laboratories