Arthur James Edward Child OC (19 May 1910 – 30 July 1996) was a British-Canadian businessman who was a senior executive in the meat-packing industry.

Child and the other owners sold the company in 1985, however, in early 1986 he and a new partner reacquired four Burns divisions and organised them into a new business.

Child graduated from Gananoque Secondary School in 1927, and that year entered Queen's University on scholarship.

During the war, he spent time in Ottawa advising on food regulations, and devised the government's meat and gasoline rationing systems.

In 1956, Child took a leave of absence from the company to attend the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.

Child left Saskatoon in 1966, at which time he moved to Calgary and became president of Burns Foods Limited.

Child had been recruited by Montreal financier Reginald Howard Webster, who with Alec Hill of Toronto controlled the company.

In an interview with the Calgary Herald in 1970, he said, "I wanted a simple profit and loss statement from each department weekly.

In January 1986, Unicorp put Burns up for sale, as the food company was an uncomfortable fit in what was otherwise an energy concern.

On Monday, 5 May 1986, it was announced that Child and executive vice-president Ronald Jackson would buy four of the seven Burns divisions.

"[4] In July 1933, Child married Olive Mabel Graham-Murray at Castlefield Avenue Baptist Church in Toronto.

Although non-partisan, Child supported several politicians and advocated for Western Canada to have a greater role in the Canadian Federation.

Child and Waters shared a common aspiration for Canada to have an elected federal senate.

Child served as the honorary colonel of 4 Wing, the Communications and Electronics Branch, and 5 Signal Regiment (South African Army).

In July 1997, the foundation gave $100,000 to the Alberta branch of Planned Parenthood,[7] and $1 million to the Reform Party.

[8] In 2006 and 2007 foundation endowed a research chair in defence economics at the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies of the University of Calgary.

In 2023, Alberta Health Services CEO Mauro Chies announced the new Calgary cancer centre would be named The Arthur J.E.