relations death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date article_title birth_name
arthur meighen , father 05 february 1992 toronto , ontario portage la prairie , manitoba maxwell meighen 05 june 1908 maxwell meighen
 maxwell charles gordon meighen
maxwell meighen

maxwell charles gordon meighen obe -lrb- june 5 , 1908 -- february 5 , 1992 -rrb- was a canadian financier , and the son of late canadian prime minister arthur meighen .
meighen was born in portage la prairie , manitoba .
he graduated from the royal military college and the university of toronto , then served in world war ii -lrb- served with the corps of royal canadian electrical and mechanical engineers in europe and retiring as a colonel -rrb- .
he then took over the investment companies founded by his father .
as chairman and director of canadian general investments ltd , in 1961 he entered the consortium of financiers , headed by bud mcdougald , that owned the argus corporation .
as an argus director he was also a member of the boards of some of the largest canadian companies , including domtar , massey-ferguson , dominion stores and hollinger mines .
meighen resigned from argus in 1978 , when it was taken over by montegu black , conrad black and hal jackman .
he later became chairman and director of canadian general investments .
meighen died in toronto in 1992 .
