Timothy Eaton

Timothy Eaton left Ballymena in 1854 with nothing but youth and hunger, then built a retail empire so large it employed seventy thousand people during World War II. His money-back promise and mail-order catalogues rewired Canadian commerce, reaching rural homes with milking machines and wonder. The catalogue itself became so valuable it was reused in outdoor privies across the countryside, a strange testament to how far Eaton's reach extended.