Please answer the following question: Facts: - honorific prefix: sir - honorific suffix: kbe - children: two of his death sons , two daughters living at the time - name: james woods Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of james woods -lrb- canadian business executive -rrb- .
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sir james woods kbe -lrb- 1855 -- april 25 , 1941 -rrb- was a canadian industrialist and philanthropist who was knighted in 1915 for wartime industrial work and named knight commander of the order of the british empire in 1917 for his work as a member of the british war commission in new york .in 1928 , he was vice-president of imperial bank of canada .he was president of york knitting mills ltd. and of gordon mackay and company ltd. , a wholesale dry goods company .archives of gordon mackay are held by trent university in peterborough , ontario .in 1930 , he proposed a merger of knitting mill companies including zimmerknit and gordon mackay .