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“He was up against giants and he succeeded,” Balwant Sanghera, who knew Johal for 35 years, said. “He was very hard-working, but he was also very humble, he never bragged about anything, he was always very respectful.”
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Johal, born in India on Aug. 17, 1922, died peacefully Monday just shy of his 99th birthday. He founded Terminal Forest Products in 1965, doled out millions-of-dollars to charities, was the recipient of the Orders of Canada and B.C., and the holder of an honorary doctorate in law from the University of B.C.