Mickey MacDonald

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Mickey MacDonald
Born1952 (age 70–71)
NationalityCanadian
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forTelecommunications, food retailing and the fitness industries

Mickey MacDonald (born 1952) is an entrepreneur in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has been involved in telecommunications, food retailing and the fitness industries.

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Businesses

Clearwater

The first time MacDonald got back to Halifax, he helped his brother Colin and Rick, and brother-in-law John Risley start up a fishery company called Clearwater. [1]

DownEast Communications

MacDonald purchased the single telecommunications store located on the Bedford Highway that specialized in wireless communications in 1991 and grew it to 51 locations across Atlantic Canada. [2] The company was sold to Aliant (now Bell Aliant) on October 1, 2004 [3]

The Chickenburger restaurant Chicken Burger.jpg
The Chickenburger restaurant

The Chickenburger

On March 19, 2007 MacDonald purchased The Chickenburger, a 1950s style diner located on the Bedford Highway, which is considered to be a Bedford, Nova Scotia landmark famous for its burgers that consist of boiled chicken on a hamburger bun. [4]

Palooka’s Gym

In the spring of 2007, MacDonald founded Palooka's Gym, a fitness centre that focuses on its competitive boxing program in addition to general fitness in an old movie house on Göttingen Street in Downtown Halifax. [2] On September 8, 2011 it was announced that Palooka's Gym on Göttingen St would be permanently ceasing operations by the end of the month, but there was also a location open on the Bedford highway. [5]

Charities

Bella Rose Arts Centre

MacDonald contributed $300,000 CAD to Theatre Halifax, a community theatre in Halifax West High School. To show appreciation for this donation, the theatre changed its name to the Bella Rose Arts Centre in honour of MacDonald's mother Bella and his daughter Rose. [6]

Personal life

MacDonald grew up one of seven children in Fairview, Halifax. He left school in grade nine and worked at odd jobs across Canada, spending some time homeless in Toronto, Ontario. [7] While in Toronto he started boxing competitively. MacDonald later completed a GED. One of his brothers, Colin, is also a prominent Halifax area businessman while another, Rick, is a boxing trainer.

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References

  1. ↑ Gordon Pitts (February 10, 2011). "Former boxer built cellphone empire". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  2. 1 2 Quenneville, Guy (February 15, 2007). "Punch it up". The Coast. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Aliant to purchase DownEast Communications". Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE). Archived from the original on October 23, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Bedford's Chickenburger flips owners". CBC. March 20, 2007. Archived from the original on March 28, 2007.
  5. ↑ CBC News (September 8, 2011). "Palooka's Boxing Club to hang up the gloves". CBC Nova Scotia. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  6. ↑ "About Us". Bella Rose Arts Centre. Archived from the original on August 14, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Biography Mickey and Colin MacDonald". Canadian Red Cross. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011.
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