Richard Haskayne

Richard Francis "Dick" Haskayne OC AOE (born 18 December 1934) is a Canadian retired accountant and oilman whose career spanned from 1956 to 2005.

Upon graduation in 1956, Haskayne began his accounting career in Calgary as an articling student with Riddell, Stead, Graham & Hutchison.

He remained in this role until 1973, when he became the comptroller of Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited, a consortium HBOG was part of that was investigating the construction of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.

After Gulf Canada purchased Hiram Walker, in 1986 the Interprovincial Pipeline Company acquired Home.

On 1 May 1991, Haskayne was elected to the board of directors of Nova Corporation, formerly the Alberta Gas Trunk Line Company.

At the company's annual general meeting in 1992, Haskayne was elected chairman, succeeding Daryl K. Seaman.

On 4 September 1998, Haskayne remarried to Lois Paula Kenney, who was the ex-wife of Strathcona-Tweedmuir School founding headmaster William Alexander Heard (1932–2011).

[2] In 1997, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for "his high ethical business standards" and for having "helped lead fund-raising campaigns for several organizations such as the University of Calgary and the United Way.

[5] Haskayne's memoir Northern Tigers: Building Ethical Canadian Corporate Champions was published on March 28, 2007 by Key Porter Books.