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Peter Bentley (businessman)
Peter John Gerald Bentley, (born March 17, 1930) is a Canadian businessman and was the third Chancellor of the University of Northern British Columbia.
==Early life and education==
Bentley was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family, the son of Leopold Bloch-Bauer and Antoinette Ruth Pick.〔(New York Times: "For Betrayal by Swiss Bank and Nazis, $21 Million" By WILLIAM GLABERSON ) April 14, 2005〕 His family fled Vienna in 1938 after unsuccessfully trying to prevent the nationalization by the Nazis of the family business, one of the largest sugar mills in Austria which supplied twenty percent of the country's sugar. The facility was later sold to a Nazi sympathizer for a nominal cost.〔 They moved to British Columbia where his father, who changed his name to Leopold "Poldi" Bentley,〔 founded a furniture and paneling veneer company called Pacific Veneer with his brother-in-law John Prentice (of the Pick family) that later became Canfor Corporation, an integrated forest products company. Canfor went public in 1983 and is now traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.〔(Canfor Corporation website: Our Rich History ) retrieved January 29, 2013〕
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