Photo: courtesy of Industrial Alliance

Then Quebec Premier Jean Lesage and Industrial Life Insurance Company general manager Stanley Brock celebrate the firm’s first billion dollars of in-force insurance in 1963.

Stanley E. Brock and his philanthropy might have been a mystery to many in the English-speaking community, but he was well known in certain circles.

“I knew him well,” said Ronald Blair, who worked for Price Brothers. “He was a member of The Wheel House. He had his own chair.”