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Opening Men’s Eyes: Peter Brown and the Liberal Struggle for South Africa by Michael Cardo

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I generally enjoy reading biographies, but Michael Cardo’s biography of Peter Brown is the the first one I have read that is about someone I knew fairly well, so I read it with more than usual interest, and perhaps more critically than usual. I read it to discover more about someone I had known, but also to discover whether the person described in the biography was the same as the person that I knew. And on the whole, I have to say yes — the character of Peter Brown that Michael Cardo captures is indeed the Peter Brown that I knew.

Peter Brown was one of the founders and leaders of the Liberal Party of South Africa, which, in the 1950s and 1960s, stood for the principle of a non-racial democracy in South Africa, and Peter Brown was one of its most principled and consistent exponents.

His background made it seem unlikely that he would be such a thing. He came from a fairly wealthy and privileged white farming and merchant family, and white farmers

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Once pilloried, now a pillar, Peter Brown has done it all: Controversial Canaccord Capital boss warily returns to the limelight as entrepreneur of the year

By Ian Mulgrew
Vancouver Sun, Nov. 23, 2001

Thirty years ago, Peter Brown was the Penny Stock King.

Twenty years ago, he was Western Canada’s most renowned Cowboy Capitalist.

Ten years ago, he was a lightning rod for criticism and all that was supposedly wrong with the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

This year, he was named the Pacific Region’s entrepreneur of the year — a recognized pillar of the B.C. establishment and nationally celebrated for his achievements.

Yet, he is ambivalent about the award, sponsored by international accounting giant Ernst & Young, because it has pushed him back into the limelight, brought reporters back to his doorstep and his face to a magazine cover. ”I’m trying to stay out of the media,” Brown said when first approached for an interview.

“It’s distasteful to me.”

More than a decade ago, in fact, he abandoned public life to get his privacy back, rankled at how the media tattled abo

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Peter M. Brown

Canadian businessman (born 1941)

Peter M. Brown (born December 15, 1941) is a Canadian businessman. He founded Canaccord Financial (now Canaccord Genuity), which has become the largest independent investment dealer in Canada.^[1] He retired in 2014.^[2]

Early life

Peter MacLachlan Brown was born in Vancouver, like his father, Ralph, and grandfather before him. Peter Brown's grandfather Brenton was a well-connected businessman and power broker of his time, head of the Crown Life Insurance Co., onetime president of the Vancouver Board of Trade,^[3] and a founder of the right-of-centre municipal NPA party.^[4] His grandson would one day follow in his footsteps.

Peter Brown attended the private Shawnigan Lake School^[5] and later St. George's School, where he graduated in 1958, as did his brothers Ralph ’53, Alan ’54, and Robert ’68; and his sons James ’86 and Jason ’89.^[6] He studied at the University of British Columbia, entering at age 15^[7] and “majoring in partying”,^[8] but