Posted AT 1:48 AM EST on 22/11/07
The Irvings: Shaking the family tree
Jim Irving is a hulking, forceful presence in his 50s, who towers over an empire of trees, mills and trucks. His cousin Kenneth, a few years younger, is an athletic-looking executive who manages an energy colossus along the Bay of Fundy.
These two men are virtually unknown outside their home province of New Brunswick. But they are future multibillionaires, as the leaders of the next generation of the mighty Irving family and its 125-year-old business dynasty.
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