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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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (528 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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