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Freewheeling: The feuds, broods, and outrageous fortunes of the Billes family and Canada's favorite company

By Ian Brown

Freewheeling: The feuds, broods, and outrageous fortunes of the Billes family and Canada's favorite company tells the story about Canadian Tire, its birth, the founding fathers John Williams Billes (JW), his brother Alfred Jackson Billes (AJ), their children and the family feuds after the patriarchs died or ceded control.

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