It’s hard to believe where the time has gone, but Brown Consulting Group is happy to be celebrating our 20th anniversary this month. Things have certainly changed in the past 20 years, so we took a look back to 1999 to share 20 memorable events in honour of this very special occasion.
- The minimum wage in Ontario was $6.85
- Average Canadian salary was $33,633 ($55,913 in 2018)
- Average price of a litre of gas in Toronto was 57.5¢
- Average house price in the GTA was $226,000 (2019 – $788,335)
- Jean Crétien was the Prime Minister
- Mike Harris’ PCs won a second conservative majority
- Eaton’s filed for bankruptcy
- Bill Clinton was the US president
- Y2K
- Bill Gates was the richest person with an estimated net worth of $90 billion
- Apple acquired the domain name iphone.org
- Jeff Bezos was Time’s Person of the Year (Amazon was only 5 years old in 1999)
- Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace won top box office at $474,544,677 worldwide
- Average Canadian movie ticket price was $5.00
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban led with ten weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers List
- Wayne Gretzky retired from ice hockey
- Nunavut was created after dividing from the Northwest Territories
- Tim Horton’s went smoke-free
- Julie Payette (Canada’s second woman in space) flew on Discovery and orbited the earth 153 times
- And, also in 1999, Brown Consulting Group was a team of one. We now have a team of eight amazing consultants and trainers!
