Paul of Paul's Hauling named to Order of Canada

OTTAWA—Winnipeg’s Paul Albrechsten has been made a Member of the Order of Canada. His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, made the announcement Friday, June 30. Albrechsten was among 99 new appointments and the news comes one year after Albrechsten was named to the Order of Manitoba. The fleet president and CEO immigrated from Denmark at the age of 24, with just $50 in his pocket, and began working for 90 cents an hour as a field mechanic in Virden, Manitoba. He lived in tool sheds to save enough money to buy two trucks in two years, and founded Paul’s Hauling in 1956. …Read the rest of this story

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