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Murray Pezim

Canadian businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2025
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Murray Pezim, better known as "the Pez", was a Canadian businessman. He was a flamboyant mining promotor and stockbroker that promoted a number of gold investment over his lifetime. Later in his life he would buy the BC Lions Canadian Football League team, but the 1991–1992 season was one of the worse seasons in the history of the team to such extent that Pezim had to file for bankruptcy on 27 August 1992 and give up the ownership. Pezim was one of the most colorful and flamboyant "characters" selling shares in his companies on the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

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The public source identifies “Murray Pezim” as canadian businessman. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Murray, Pezim and Canadian.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Murray, Pezim and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Murray Pezim” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.