Photo by Keith Minchin/Faces of Fredericton REAL TIME NET WORTH $4.1B as of 9/21/21 James Irving owns J.D. Irving, a conglomerate with more than two dozen companies in frozen foods, retail, shipbuilding, transportation and more. His timber and forestry operation, based in New Brunswick, has planted over a billion trees since 1957. His family's fortune dates back to the 19th century, when his grandfather left Scotland and launched a general store and lumber and farming companies.