The owner was of Indian descent but was born in Kenya.
After graduating from the University of West London, he had just returned to East Africa when the Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled his country’s South Asian minority in 1972.
Living in neighbouring Kenya, He decided to move in case “some Idi Amin type of guy comes in and makes you a beggar overnight,“ he said in a 2012 interview.
He came to Canada in 1975, where, confronted by the cold and the snow, he said he couldn’t think of any other business opportunities but to manufacture fire logs.
“When I got into the fire log business it was a big thing to be macho. Get a chainsaw and cut your own wood and bag it yourself,“ he said in the 2012 interview.
Instead, he offered convenient products that ignited easily and were made from inexpensive sawdust and wax.
His Toronto-based company, became North America’s biggest manufacturer of fire logs.
His companies also have made glue st
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