The Dollar a Year Men

Overview

“The Dollar A Year Men is about the largely untold story as to how Canada recruited business leaders who made enormous contributions toward helping Canada mobilize and industrialize during the Second World War. Some of the nation’s richest tycoons and business executives dedicated years to converting Canada’s under-utilized industries into factories that produced war materials, weapons, and equipment. They and others volunteered willingly and became a top-notch team that turned Canada into a military-industrial powerhouse that helped defeat Hitler. This book is a must-read and contains untold stories of courage, dedication and sacrifice from Canada’s proud past.
Diane Francis, journalist and author

“This is an important book, a reminder that when Canada is under assault, good men and women step up to serve. That is what happened in World War Two. That is what is happening now.”
Rt. Honourable Jean Chretien, former Prime Minister of Canada

Author Biography

Allan Levine is an award-winning author and historian who has written sixteen books, including Details Are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Café Society Murder; Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience, which was longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize; Toronto Biography of a City;King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny, which won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction; and Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba,which won the McNally-Robinson Book of the Year.