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PROFILES

That led to an administrative position
at the Chamber overseeing its group
benefits program, which was launched to

coincide with the merger of the former
Galt and Preston Chambers of Commerce
and Hespeler Retail Merchants
Association on Jan. 1, 1973 – the same day
the City of Cambridge was o¤cially born.

Art and Deb Mosey pose in our boardroom with older photos of Art and Deb’s parents, the late
Betty and Don Faichney, both former Chamber managers.
Art and Deb Mosey are Deb Mosey (left) and her sister, Sandy, are pictured

here volunteering for a Chamber Easter promotion.
business champions With them is their grandfather, the late Rev. Faichney.
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package
certainly
“The
benefits
broadened the horizon of bringing
Like many couples, Art and “The funny things my sisters and I did in Chamber members who were in
manufacturing, or were service or supply
Deb Mosey share many similar for dad and the Chamber,” laughs Deb, industries,” says Art. “It broadened the
recalling how they once dressed up as
interests. ‘Easter bunnies’ as teens to promote a scope of the di§erent types of members.”

But it was their mutual interest in ra£e the organization was running. To say he knew the power of the program,
promoting the success of the business She pursued a career in nursing before the first of its kind for Chambers in

community that would eventually bring the returning later as a Chamber volunteer Canada, is an understatement since Art
pair together many years ago when they a ter her mother, Betty, became general was its o¤cial ‘architect’ a ter arriving

found themselves enveloped by their work manager of the still relatively ‘young’ to Cambridge that year to work for
for the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce. Cambridge Chamber of Commerce in Marshall Insurance Brokers Limited (now
“It was essentially a retail operation then. I 1975 a ter her father passed away. A paid BGM Financial) to develop its Employee

think it had a couple of hundred members position developed for her in the early Benefit and Life Insurance business. Art
in Galt,” says Art, describing how the 1980s when the Chamber struck a deal had connected with the local company
Chamber’s membership looked when he with Bell Canada to temporarily house while still working for a large Toronto
first arrived in the area in the early 1970s. its payment o¤ce at its headquarters brokerage and implemented this new

“The downtown back then was really in Preston a ter the company closed its local plan following a year of intense
study, which included reaching out to

thriving,” says Deb, who had already been Cambridge o¤ce. Cambridge businesses.
immersed in the Chamber world since “The Chamber took that on as a contract so

her father, the late Don Faichney, became people could still come into the o¤ce and “We were able to bring a lot of new

general manager of the former Galt pay their bills,” says Deb, who was hired members with that plan. Most of them
Chamber of Commerce two years prior to to spearhead this service. “They didn’t were smaller industries, plus we had an
the amalgamation. know who to hire for this position because upper-level tier for larger companies
nobody was really interested working a six- where they could participate and get
to-nine-month contract.” discounts,” says Art.
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