Businessman.
Born at Winnipeg around 1930, son of Esther Glow (?-1996) and Goodman Glow (c1903-1979), he initially worked for his father’s cattle-buying business before operating Edison Electric and later Capital Electric. He also had five fruit and nut stores around the city and a delicatessen in Charleswood. In the 1950s, he brought the Dickee Dee ice-cream business to Winnipeg from its roots in Vancouver, hiring 14-year-old Earl Barish as a salesman in 1957. (Barish’s father would buy Dickie Dee from Glow in 1959 and develop it into an international business.) He and wife Freda had two sons. He served as President of the B'Nay Abraham Synagogue. He died at Winnipeg on 3 June 2015 and was buried in the B'Nay Abraham Cemetery.
Obituary [Goodman Glow], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 May 1979, page 45.
Obituary [Esther Glow], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 March 1996, page 37.
“Wheeling and dealing on summer sundaes,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 May 1987, page 22.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 20 June 2015.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 November 2017
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