{"id":10466,"date":"2014-05-15T22:48:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2014-05-15T22:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:48:51","slug":"winnipeg-business-icon-known-simply-as-gtr-dead-at-the-age-of-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/15\/winnipeg-business-icon-known-simply-as-gtr-dead-at-the-age-of-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg business icon known simply as \u2018GTR\u2019 dead at the age of 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10467\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Goverors-Richardson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10467\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Goverors-Richardson.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from hbcheritage.ca\" width=\"161\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from hbcheritage.ca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">WINNIPEG\u2014George T. Richardson, the patriarch of what is considered Winnipeg\u2019s wealthiest and most prominent family, has died at the age of 89.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Employees of James Richardson and Sons, Ltd., were informed Wednesday morning through an internal memo from Richardson\u2019s son, Hartley, that his father had died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">GTR, as he was known to his business associates, graduated from the University of Manitoba, then joined the company in 1946 and was initially assigned to the Richardson Terminal in Thunder Bay, Ont., where he had worked the previous two summers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">In 1954, he became vice-president and in 1966, was appointed president\u2014a position he would hold for the next 27 years as the company excelled in agriculture, real estate, energy and financial services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Richardson stepped aside for Hartley in 1993, and was appointed chairman and managing director of the firm before officially retiring seven years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">In its most recent Rich 100 list, Canadian Business magazine listed the Richardson family at No. 9 in the country with a net worth of $4.45 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG\u2014George T. Richardson, the patriarch of what is considered Winnipeg\u2019s wealthiest and most prominent family, has died at the age &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}