George Butterfield
Male, Person
1939 –
Who is George Butterfield?
George D.B. Butterfield is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick and raised in Bermuda, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Trinity College, Toronto in 1961 and a Bachelor of Law from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1965. During his final year at the University of Toronto, he was elected president of the Kappa Alpha Literary Society. A Bermuda citizen as well, he was elected a Rhodes Scholar in Bermuda in 1963 but resigned.
He is the co-founder with his wife, Martha, and her brother Sidney Robinson of Butterfield & Robinson, a luxury active travel company with about 100 biking, walking, and boating trips in more than two dozen countries.
A philanthropist, he has worked with the Ontario College of Art and Design as the chairman of its capital campaign which raised forty million dollars. The OCAD presented him an honorary doctorate in 2007. He was also involved with PEN Canada, Canadian Paraplegic Association, and the World Wildlife Fund Canada.
In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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- Born
- Feb 5, 1939
Saint John - Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- University of Toronto
- Lived in
- Saint John
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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