The ocean-liner the SS Minnesota was owned by Canadian-American railroad executive who became known as what during his lifetime?
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SS Minnesota (1904) SS "Minnesota was an American built ocean-liner operated by the Great Northern Steamship Company which was owned by James J. Hill. She was an identical sister ship to the  which sank in Japan in 1907. Both ships built in 1903 were the largest and most luxurious liners built in the United States at the opening of the 20th century. Shortly after WW1 she was operated by the US Navy as USS "Troy" as a troop ship.
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James J. Hill James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916), was a Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as "The Empire Builder."
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. (September 22, 1912 – November 12, 1999) was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, a son of the first Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who died a hero in the sinking of the RMS "Lusitania". His mother, Margaret Emerson (daughter of the Bromo-Seltzer inventor Isaac E Emerson), was one of America's wealthiest women and most sought-after hostesses, operating at least seven large estates around the country. His grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, had been one of America's most revered businessman; his great-grandfather, William Henry Vanderbilt had been the richest man in the world. "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt started the family fortune in shipping and railroads as the founder of the New York Central Railroad and builder of Grand Central Terminal in New York.
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John D. Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American oil industry business magnate and philanthropist. Widely considered the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history, Rockefeller was born into a large family in upstate New York and was shaped by his con man father and religious mother. His family moved several times before eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio.
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James Armstrong Richardson Sr. James Armstrong Richardson Sr. (August 21, 1885 – June 26, 1939) was an influential business person in Canada in both business and aviation during the early part of the 20th century. He lived most of his life in Winnipeg.
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Frederic Kimber Seward Frederic Kimber Seward, Sr. (sometimes misspelled Frederick) (March 23, 1878 – December 7, 1943) was a prominent corporate lawyer in New York City. He was a passenger on the "RMS Titanic", and later chaired a survivors' committee that honored the rescue ship RMS "Carpathia".
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Jim Pattison James Allen Pattison, OC, OBC (born October 1, 1928) is a Canadian business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is based in Vancouver where he holds the position of Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group, the second largest privately held company in Canada. He is considered Canada's fourth richest person.
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John Murray Forbes John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 – October 12, 1898) was an American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist. He was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s. He kept doing business with Russell & Company.
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Ross Whicher Ross MacKenzie Whicher (February 13, 1918 - April 19, 2002) was a Canadian politician and businessman.
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Thomas A. Scott Thomas Alexander Scott (December 28, 1823 – May 21, 1881) was an American businessman, railroad executive, and industrialist. He was the fourth president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1874-1880), later the largest publicly traded corporation in the world.
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James Ross (Canadian businessman) James Leveson Ross (1848 – September 20, 1913), of Montreal, was a Scottish-born Canadian civil engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He established his fortune predominantly through railway construction, notably for the Canadian Pacific Railway, of which he was the major shareholder, and advising Lord Strathcona on railway projects in Argentina and Chile. He oversaw the electrification of street railways in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Saint John, Birmingham (England), Mexico City and São Paulo. He was president of the Dominion Bridge Company, the Mexican Power Company etc. He was Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars and Governor of McGill University and the Royal Victoria Hospital. He was an avid collector of the Old Masters and president of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He owned several yachts including two named "Glencairn" and became the first Canadian to be made a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. He funded the construction of the Ross Memorial Wing at the Royal Vic; the Ross Memorial Hospital and Nurse's Home at Lindsay, Ontario; and the Protestant Hospital for the Insane at Verdun, Quebec. He lived in the Golden Square Mile.
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John Molson Jr. John Molson Junior (October 14, 1787 – July 12, 1860) was a Canadian politician and entrepreneur. Former Director of Molson Bank, President of the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad (Canada's first railway), and President of Montreal General Hospital.
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William McMaster William McMaster (December 24, 1811 – September 22, 1887) was a Canadian wholesaler, Senator and banker in the 19th century. A director of the Bank of Montreal from 1864 to 1867, he was a driving force behind the creation of the Canadian Bank of Commerce of which he served as the founding president from 1867 to his death in 1887.
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Lewis H.M. Ayre Lewis Haldane Miller Ayre, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (April 22, 1914 – December 8, 1985) was a Canadian businessman.
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John Thayer (cricketer) John Borland Thayer II (April 21, 1862April 15, 1912) was an American businessman who had a thirty-year career as an executive with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was a director and second vice-president of the company when he died a week before his 50th birthday in the sinking of the RMS "Titanic", on April 15, 1912. In his youth, Thayer was also a prominent sportsman, playing baseball and lacrosse for the University of Pennsylvania and first-class cricket for the Philadelphian cricket team. He is the only first-class cricketer known to have died aboard "Titanic".
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Alfred Rouleau Alfred Rouleau, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (August 19, 1915 – October 19, 1985) was a Canadian businessman and President of the Fédération du Québec des Caisses Populaires Desjardins, Quebec's largest credit union.
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William Dawson Lawrence William Dawson Lawrence (16 July 1817 – 8 December 1886) was a successful shipbuilder, businessman and politician. He built the "William D. Lawrence", which is reported to be the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada.
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Arthur Rostron Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR (14 May 1869 – 4 November 1940) was a captain for the Cunard Line. He is best remembered as the captain of the ocean liner RMS "Carpathia", which rescued hundreds of survivors of the RMS "Titanic" when it sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Carl Ice Carl R. Ice is an American businessman. He's been the President of BNSF Railway since November 1, 2010, and President and CEO of since January 1, 2014, succeeding Matthew K. Rose in the role. He started working for the Santa Fe Railroad, which would later be consolidated into BNSF, in 1979.
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Walter Frederick Light Walter Frederick Light, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (June 24, 1923 – February 24, 1996) was a Canadian business executive.
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Evée LeBlanc Evée LeBlanc (August 20, 1878 – September 26, 1978) was a Canadian fishing captain who pioneered the tuna fishing industry in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia. LeBlanc was internationally known for taking American tourists on fishing trips, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and aviator Amelia Earhart.
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Frank M. Warren Sr. Frank Manley Warren Sr. (May 10, 1848 – April 15, 1912) was a prominent American businessman from Oregon who made his fortune in the salmon canning industry. The community of Warrendale, Oregon, the site of one of his canneries, was named for him. He died in the sinking of the "Titanic".