A Hotel for All Seasons
One of Canada’s leading entrepreeurs reflects on five decades of success July–August 2009
Four seasons is one of those all-too-few commercial brands with which Canadians have achieved global renown, alongside Massey-Ferguson, Ski-Doo, Seagram’s V.O. and the BlackBerry.
Stories of great, sustained success usually are unlikely. This one’s no different.
Isadore Sharp, protege of his father, Max, as a builder of Toronto houses and modest apartment blocks, falls into the inn keeping trade after putting up a surprisingly successful motel for a client in the 1ate…