By Anna Porter, Queen’s Quarterly 125/4 (Winter 2018)
By the end of his life Peter Munk had given away nearly $300 million dollars, a breathtaking sum by any measure, but particularly impressive from a man who had started with nothing but ambition, a sunny disposition, and a willingness to make friends. His generosity was fuelled by his boundless gratitude to Canada for taking him in at a time when he had “zero to offer,” as he used to say; he was just a young redhead with an attitude and his “hands out.”
