The Phelan Feud: The Bitter Struggle for Control of a Great Canadian Food Empire by Stephen Kimber will be released on June 6, 2024, by Barlow Books. It is now available for pre-order.
Award-winning journalist Stephen Kimber takes readers behind the scenes of an epic family feud inside the Phelan clan—one of Canada’s wealthiest families—who over three generations built and ran Cara and its many popular restaurant chains, including Harvey’s and Swiss Chalet.
Trouble began when the family patriarch Paul James Phelan—who could often be seen dining at his favourite haunt, the Swiss Chalet on Toronto’s Bloor St. West—refused to yield control to the next generation. What followed pitted the heir-apparent brother against his sisters, forcing a bitter power struggle that played out in boardrooms, courtrooms, and high-society living rooms. Readers will be surprised to learn who won this generational war.
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STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels and eight non-fiction books. Buy his books 
I met the whole family. It shows money doesn’t buy happiness. Paul senior was scary, Helen hitting him didn’t help my opinion of her. I knew someone who dated her. I told him he made the right decision not to marry her. Sharon spoke in slow motion as did her boyfriend. Holiday smoked grass with her mother.
I worked for a limo service owned by them. My poverty was a life richer than theirs.