Richard Francis "Dick" Haskayne (born 18 December 1934) is a

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retired accountant and oilman whose career spanned from 1956 to 2005. Haskayne served as senior official of several major Canadian petroleum companies including

Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Company Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Company Limited was a Canadian non-integrated petroleum company that operated between 1926 and 1982. Originally called the Hudson's Bay Marland Oil Company (HBMOC), it was founded as a joint venture between the Hudson's Bay ...

Home Oil Company Home Oil Company Limited was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed from 1925 and 1995. Home was founded to produce oil in the Turner Valley field, and by the end of World War II was the country's largest independent producer. Betwe ...

, Interprovincial Pipeline Company, Nova Corporation, and TransCanada Pipelines. He is also known for his association with the

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, whose management faculty was renamed the

Haskayne School of Business The Haskayne School of Business is the University of Calgary's business school, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is named after Richard F. Haskayne, who gave one of the largest endowments to a business school in Canada. The school off ...

in 2002.

Biography

Early life

Richard Haskayne was born on 18 December 1934 in Calgary to Robert Stanley Haskayne (1893–1964) and Bertha Hasketh (1891–1961). Robert and Bertha were both born in England, came to Canada in 1913, and married that same year. They had one other son, Stanley (1928–2005). The Haskaynes owned butcher shops in

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and

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, and raised their sons in the latter town. Richard entered the

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in 1952, and in 1956 graduated Bachelor of Commerce. During his time at university Haskayne became a member of

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Career

Articling and Hudson's Bay, 1956–1982

Upon graduation in 1956, Haskayne began his accounting career in Calgary as an articling student with Riddell, Stead, Graham & Hutchison. In 1959 he received his designation as a Chartered Accountant. In 1960 he left the firm to join the

as an accountant. He remained in this role until 1973, when he became the comptroller of Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited, a consortium HBOG was part of that was investigating the construction of the

Mackenzie Valley Pipeline The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, also called the Mackenzie River Pipeline, was a proposed project to transport natural gas from the Beaufort Sea through Canada's Northwest Territories to tie into gas pipelines in northern Alberta. The project was ...

. Haskayne returned in 1975 to HBOG and that year became its vice-president. On 29 April 1980, Haskayne was appointed president of the company, succeeding Stanley G. Olson. Beginning in May 1981,

Dome Petroleum Dome Petroleum Limited was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed between 1950 and 1988. The company was founded as a subsidiary of Dome Mines and was built by Jack Gallagher, who remained with the company until 1983. In 1988 Dom ...

undertook a hostile takeover of HBOG. In October of that year,

announced that it had appointed Haskayne president. In January 1982, two months before the Dome deal concluded, Haskayne assumed his new role.

Home Oil and Interprovincial, 1982–1991

As president of Home Oil, Haskayne took over one of the country's oldest independent petroleum companies. At the time, the company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Hiram Walker Resources Limited. After

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purchased Hiram Walker, in 1986 the Interprovincial Pipeline Company acquired Home. As part of the acquisition, Interprovincial created a new parent company, Interhome Energy Inc, to manage Interprovincial Pipeline and Home Oil. Haskayne remained president of Home, was appointed president of Interprovincial in 1987, and in 1988 became chairman and president of Interhome. In 1991, Interhome dissolved and spun off its two subsidiaries as independent companies. In March 1991, Haskayne stepped down from his role with the company.

Nova and TransCanada, 1991–2005

On 1 May 1991, Haskayne was elected to the board of directors of Nova Corporation, formerly the Alberta Gas Trunk Line Company. That August, he took over as head of the company's pipeline, oil, and gas divisions. At the company's annual general meeting in 1992, Haskayne was elected chairman, succeeding Daryl K. Seaman. In June 1998, TransCanada Pipelines acquired all of Nova's petroleum operations, and the petrochemical operations were continued under the name Nova Chemicals. Upon the merger, Haskayne assumed the chairmanship of Trans-Canada. Between 1996 and 1999 he also served as chairman of

MacMillan Bloedel MacMillan Bloedel Limited was a Canadian forestry company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company was formed in 1951 as MacMillan and Bloedel through the merger of Bloedel, Stewart and Welch with the H. R. MacMillan Export Com ...

, and from 1996 to 1998 as chairman of

TransAlta TransAlta Corporation (formerly Calgary Power Company, Ltd.) is an electricity power generator and wholesale marketing company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is a privately owned corporation and its shares are traded publicly. It o ...

. In April 2005, Haskayne retired as chairman of Trans-Canada and was succeeded by S. Barry Jackson.

Personal life

On 25 June 1958 Haskayne married Lee Mary Murray of Gleichen. Lee died on 1 October 1993 at age 57 after developing

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. The Haskaynes did not have children. On 4 September 1998, Haskayne remarried to Lois Paula Kenney, who was the ex-wife of Strathcona-Tweedmuir School founding headmaster William Alexander Heard (1932–2011). Haskayne is a member of the

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and the Progressive Conservative Party. He is also a member of the

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, Ranchmen's Club, Calgary Golf & Country Club, and Earl Grey Golf Club.

Awards and recognition

From 1990 to 1996, he was the chair of the board of governors of the

and is currently board chair emeritus. In May 2002, after Haskayne donated C$16 million, the University of Calgary renamed their management faculty the

. In 1997, he was made an Officer of the

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for "his high ethical business standards" and for having "helped lead fund-raising campaigns for several organizations such as the University of Calgary and the United Way." He is a Fellow of the

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(F.C.A.). He was inducted into the

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, the Calgary Business Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Order of Canada. He sits on the board of directors for the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute. and is also a member of th
Community and Partners Advisory Committee
of the

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. In 2006, he received the

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Published works

Haskayne's memoir ''Northern Tigers: Building Ethical Canadian Corporate Champions'' was published on March 28, 2007 by Key Porter Books.

References

External links

Richard Haskayne websiteNorthern Tigers: Building Ethical Canadian Corporate ChampionsMemoir of a tiger: Community leader Dick Haskayne chronicles his career in new book
May 4, 2007, University of Calgary {{DEFAULTSORT:Haskayne, Richard 1934 births Canadian businesspeople in the oil industry Living people Businesspeople from Calgary Canadian accountants Canadian philanthropists Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence Officers of the Order of Canada University of Alberta alumni Weyerhaeuser