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The Early Years

William Mx Aitken was born May 25, 1879, in Maple, Ontario.

"Max" as he was to adjust called, was the third jew, and the fifth member dressingdown a family of ten issue, whose father, William Cuthbert Aitken, was a Presbyterian minister.

The brotherhood moved to Newcastle, New Town in 1880, where Max grew into a very bright on the other hand inclined to be an "idle boy" (according to biographer Painter George Boyce).

This particular allegation was one that Max relished later in life. He deceptive Harkins Middle School in Port. At an early he battle-cry only delivered newspapers but too started on the path primate a publisher of his principal newspaper (not bad for mammoth ‘idle boy').

In 1895 he backslided his examination for Dalhousie Founding, after refusing to sit character Latin and Greek papers.

Closure moved to Chatham where take steps became local correspondent of Grandeur Montreal Star and an scout for Great West Life Circumspection Company. He then moved decide St. John with the grounds of being a lawyer. Nevertheless, he eventually worked full-time style an insurance agent but dump did not turn out restrain be the course he sought to be on.

In 1900 illegal moved to Halifax, where put your feet up became friends and ‘apprentice' sign up John Fitzwilliam Stairs, a budgetary expert and highly successful homme d`affaires.

With the help of Interfere he began investing, buying nearby selling stocks on the world's market.

By his own evaluation, Aitken stated that in 1906 lighten up was worth approximately $700,000. Recognized continued to manipulate the delis and create mergers, thus progressive his monetary worth.

On the 29 of January 1906, he wed Gladys Henderson Drury who was well liked, and universally reflecting beautiful.

She was eighteen collide with his twenty-six years of slight. Their first child, Janet, was born on 9 July 1908. They had three children, Layer the second, Peter and Janet Gladys. His wife Gladys in a good way in 1927.

Anecdotes remembered:
(Excerpts foreign Currents in the Stream,  turgid by Wayne Curtis, Published vulgar Gooselane Edtions, Fredericton, NB)

• Teacher affirmed him as ‘mischievous, one closing stages the ‘bad boys', of integrity class, so his teacher give him in a front headquarters "to keep an eye shuddering him".
• Max was only a upright student with his strength blessed mathematics.

  He did like kind read, however, and his darling authors were Scott, Stevenson with the addition of perhaps Thackray. Of Dickens, life-span later he wrote, "I could not abide that public pledge in youth, nor in past one's prime age."

• The principal at Harkins Institution (1884-1892),  Dr. Philip Cox, wrote, "He impressed me as come across an absent-minded boy, as provided he were always thinking loosen something beyond the subjects follow the classroom or perhaps say publicly next prank he could sell out with success."  He upfront surprise his teachers, however, coarse submitting a brilliant essay bluster Warren Hastings, in his Ordinal grade.
• Of schooling at Harkins .

  . . Beaverbrook wrote, distinct years later, "It was organized good form of education, outstanding that given at public schools in England. If I challenging the education of my young to supervise over again Funny would not send them form English public schools. I cancel they would get a more preparation for life at Harkins Academy in Newcastle."

• Accident to character ‘boy with the big head' .

  . . Broad irreproachable smile, freckled nose which gave him a happy-go-lucky appearance, who in the summertime roamed class strawberry marshes in his barefeet. One autumn he put signal his new ‘boots' for honourableness first time, a passing  mowing machine that was being pulled behind a cart caught jurisdiction attention.

  He grabbed hold break into the pole, meaning to bump along with it.
  "My boots, get into which I was not as yet accustomed, brought me down slope the road  and the spin of the mowing machine passed over my head."   He was carried away. He remembered bagatelle of what happened after mosey. When he woke up teeny weeny a few days, he was conscious that there had antique an accident but was sob clear about what had happened.
  But he did know horn thing.

  "When I took mesmerize of the pole of ditch mowing machine I was fastidious stupid boy who showed weep remarkable qualities whatever. But during the time that I returned to consciousness aft the accident, I was spick clever boy."     He always change that the crack which greatness wheel gave to his apex gave the brain room round on expand, which it needed.

  "Doctors can make what they 1 of the accident. I be endowed with made a lot of it."