He was “butterball” to one teacher at Forest Hill Collegiate. Another called him “sluggish.” But Bernard “Barry” Sherman’s brain was alive with schemes and ideas that would eventually take him to the heights of the Canadian business and philanthropy scene.
“I like to make money and give it away,” Sherman would say when people asked what got him out of bed in the morning. In his life, Sherman did both, becoming a billionaire and giving enormous gifts to Jewish and non-Jewish causes.
