An heiress to the multibillion-dollar McCain french fry empire says she is financially “trapped” by the family-owned company and its policies, which she claims prevent her from selling her ownership stake for a fair price.
Eleanor McCain claims french fry empire is blocking her exit, costing her ‘hundreds of millions’
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 10, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Eleanor McCain, shown in this 2017 photo promoting an album, says McCain Foods Group Inc. has thrown up obstacles to her cashing out. (Galit Rodan/The Canadian Press)
An heiress to the multibillion-dollar McCain french fry empire says she is financially “trapped” by the family-owned company and its policies, which she claims prevent her from selling her ownership stake for a fair price.
Eleanor McCain, a professional singer and the daughter of McCain Foods co-founder Wallace McCain, says the family holding company, McCain Foods Group Inc., or MFGI, has thrown up obstacles to her desire to cash out.
“MFGI does not want family members to be able to break away,” says a statement of claim filed by her lawyers in Court of King’s Bench in Moncton.
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