Editor’s note: Harvey Glatt died on August 20 at the age of 91. Here’s the Ottawa Citizen’s profile from 2017 on the local entrepreneur and community builder.

Harvey Glatt was fully expected to take over the family business.

The business was the Baker Brothers’ junkyard, the LeBreton Flats institution founded in the early 1900s by Glatt’s maternal grandfather and great-uncle.

By the time Glatt finished college in 1956, his father ran what was then the biggest junkyard in Ottawa, with a brisk trade in the recycling of metal, paper, rags, auto parts, tires and any other material of value. The newly minted business-admin graduate took a job at the company’s service station.

But it wasn’t long before another business was vying for his attention. Glatt and a former college roommate, Arnol

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