{"id":1244,"date":"2026-09-18T04:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/winnipeg-business-leader-and-philanthropist-doug-harvey-dies-at-age-72\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T04:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:01:49","slug":"winnipeg-business-leader-and-philanthropist-doug-harvey-dies-at-age-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/winnipeg-business-leader-and-philanthropist-doug-harvey-dies-at-age-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg business leader and philanthropist Doug Harvey dies at age 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->WINNIPEG \u2014 Prominent Winnipeg business leader and noted philanthropist Doug Harvey died at the age of 72 on Wednesday.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Maxim Truck &amp; Trailer, a subsidiary of DLH Group, which was founded by Harvey, announced his death in a statement on its website.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Harvey had been battling cancer for more than a decade and raised $1.88 million for the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation in June after being admitted into a palliative care program in May.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->He founded Winnipeg-based DLH Group in 1981, growing the transportation business to employ about 800 people across the country.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Winnipeg mayor Scott Gillingham offered his condolences in a statement Wednesday, saying Harvey was a successful business leader who contributed to the city&#8217;s economy and supported countless non-profit organizations and fundraising campaigns.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->In 2022, Harvey was awarded the Order of Manitoba and was also inducted into the Manitoba Business Hall of Fame.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 17, 2026.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->The Canadian Press<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 Prominent Winnipeg business leader and noted philanthropist Doug Harvey died at the age of 72 on Wednesday. Maxim Truck &amp; Trailer, a subsidiary of DLH Group, which was founded by Harvey, announced his death in a statement on its website. Harvey had been battling cancer for more than a decade and raised $1.88 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}