birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name
springhill , nova scotia canadian 03 may 1940 john bragg -lrb- businessman -rrb-
 john l. bragg oc b.comm b.ed
john bragg -lrb- businessman -rrb-

john l. bragg , -lrb- born may 3 , 1940 -rrb- is a canadian businessman and former chancellor of mount allison university .
born in springhill , nova scotia , he received a bachelor of commerce degree and a bachelor of education degree from mount allison university .
he is the chairman , president and co-chief executive officer of oxford frozen foods limited , a food manufacturer which he founded in 1968 and operates the largest fruit farm in the world , with over 12,000 acres -lrb- 49 km ² -rrb- of wild blueberries .
he also founded a cable television company in the 1970s which became known as bragg communications and was subsequently expanded to become eastlink .
he is a director of td bank financial group , canada bread limited , empire company limited and sobeys inc. .
in 1996 , he was made an officer of the order of canada .
in 1994 , he was awarded the national entrepreneur of the year award by the governor general of canada ray hnatyshyn .
bragg had a net worth of $ 490 million cdn in 2006 .
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