The Globe and Mail

Somewhere between being elected to Parliament in 1949 at age 25 and planning the unification of the army, navy and air force in the mid-1960s as minister of national defence, the Honourable Paul T. Hellyer was kind enough to build my house. Well, not really. But as president of Curran Hall Ltd. from 1950 until 1962, he certainly played a large part in its creation. It all began with, as he calls it, "an accident of fate." During an introductory lunch with company founders Wilf Curran and Ted Hall at the Granite Club, he told them of the need for a "General Motors of the housing industry."