In the history of enterprise, Arthur Godfrey Peuchen is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Arthur Godfrey Peuchen as Canadian businessman (1859–1929).
Arthur Godfrey Peuchen was born at Montreal in 1859. His recorded nationality is Canada.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Canada shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Arthur Godfrey Peuchen died in 1929, aged 70. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
