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Born maple, ontario canada
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In 1900, Aitken made his way to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where John F. Stairs, part of the city's dominant business family, gave him employment and trained him in the business of finance.
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In 1904, when Stairs launched the Royal Securities Corporation, Aitken became a minority shareholder and the firm's general manager.
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By 1906, by his own reckoning, he was worth $700,000. He continued to manipulate the markets and create mergers – of which the largest and perhaps most lucrative was the Canadian cement merger – drawing censure on more than one occasion from the Canadian authorities
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In 1907 he founded the Montreal Engineering Company.
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• In 1909, also under the umbrella of his Royal Securities Company, Aitken founded the Calgary Power Company Limited, now the TransAlta Corporation, and oversaw the building of the Horseshoe Falls hydro station.
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Ostensibly to raise capital for the acquisition of a steel company.but it was to politics that he turned to.
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He left Canada in 1910 for Great Britain where he was soon knighted, elected as a member of parliament, and began to purchase newspapers.
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In 1910 he took up a seat in the House of Commons,where he represented Ashton-under-Lyne for the Conservative party.
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But when war broke out in August 1914 he was not invited to join the War Cabinet
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In May 1915 Aitken was appointed as the Canadian force's official records officer
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Early in 1915 as a journalist attached to Canadian forces (as 'Canadian Eye Witness').
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•In early 1916, Beaverbrook established the Canadian War Records Office using his own funds -
Atkin was offered a peerage. if he had not exaclty asquiths head on the block.
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appointed to the London government on 10 February 1918, as Minister of Information
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Died Cherkley Court, Leatherhead, United Kingdom.
