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The proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights, to be built in downtown Winnipeg, received $2.7 million in donations on Friday.
Museum campaign organizers announced that Doug Harvey, president of Winnipeg-based Maxim Transportation, personally pledged $1 million to the project.
A group of donors that includes Charles Bronfman, the Cangene Corporation, the Thomas Sill Foundation, Crosier Kilgour and Partners Ltd., and other individuals pitched in a total of $1.2 million.
As well, Marjorie and Morley Blankstein doubled their donation from $500,000 to $1 million.
"What a great testament to the visionaries in this city like Doug Harvey who fully know and understand what this museum means to our country and the world," campaign chair Gail Asper said Friday in a release.
Asper added that she was "thrilled" to see donors like the Blanksteins double their existing donations.
Friday's announced donations brought the total in private money raised to date to $67.7 million, with $93.3 million still needing to be raised. Total project costs are estimated to be $311 million.
The proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights is targeted to open in 2010 at The Forks in downtown Winnipeg.
The project was the dream of Asper's father, the late media mogul Izzy Asper. It aims to be the largest human-rights institution and education centre in the world.
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