Harold Purdy Crawford, CC QC (7 November 1931 – 12 August 2014) was a Canadian lawyer and businessman.
He articled with Roland Ritchie in Halifax and studied labour law at Harvard with Archibald Cox, best known as the Watergate special prosecutor.
He was a corporate director for Canadian National Railway and was a member of the board of the Maple Leaf Foods as well as governor of the University of Waterloo.
Crawford acted as the lead negotiator for resolution of the Canadian financial institutions' crisis in asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP), which was caused by the collapse in the subprime mortgage market in the United States in 2007.
He was inducted into the Business Hall of Fame of Nova Scotia in 1997 and became a fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors in 1999.
In 2007, he received the Yee Hong Golden Achievement Award and was honoured as a Champion of Public Education by The Learning Partnership.
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