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Canadian, and especially Nova
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to help in the building of Canada's future by encouraging advanced study... to increase the scientific and scholastic attainments of
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Despite her husband's reluctance to fund capital projects, Dorothy Killam wanted to build a memorial in his name. In 1964 she was solicited for a major contribution to the building of a new children's hospital in
Halifax. She first pledged $ 75,000, but soon offered $
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Dorothy Killam made tens of millions of dollars by selling the shares she had inherited in her late husband's companies. She continued to increase her fortune, investing heavily in short term bonds. She once bought up a whole issue of Nova Scotia
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in 1919. He suffered serious financial losses in 1921, but recovered his fortune within a few years and went on to become extremely wealthy, with major interests in pulp and paper and electric power companies, among many others.
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million. Aside from some personal bequests, which were subject to estate taxes, her fortune was left to institutions and was not subject to tax. She left $ 8
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