Canada's Entrepreneurs : : From The Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography / / Andrew Ross, Andrew Smith.
Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them - the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries,...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on the Biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section 1: Doing Business in the New World -- Section 2: The Commercial Empire of the St Lawrence after 1763 -- Section 3: Maritime Enterprise -- Section 4: The Industrial Heartland -- Section 5: Railwaymen and Network Creators -- Section 6: Brand Names and Big Business -- Section 7: The West Booms -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
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