William Culham Woodward is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists William Culham Woodward as Canadian businessman (1885-1957).
William Culham Woodward was born at Gore Bay in 1885. His recorded nationality is Canada.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.
He worked as entrepreneur and politician.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
That the business was built from Canada shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
William Culham Woodward died in 1957, aged 72. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
