The River Barons : : Montreal businessmen and the growth of industry and transportation 1837–53 /

The River Barons : : Montreal businessmen and the growth of industry and transportation 1837–53 / / Gerald Tulchinsky.

The River Barons charts the development of the business community in Montreal through the crucial years between 1837 and 1853, when the small commercial fraternity of the 1830s, responding to the challenge of a transportation revolution, grew much more complex and diversified. This period saw the be...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Gerald Tulchinsky,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1977
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • THE RIVER BARONS: MONTREAL BUSINESSMEN AND THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORTATION 1837-53
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The business community: the pattern of involvement
  • PART ONE. SHIPPING
  • 3. Montreal forwarding firms on the upper St Lawrence
  • 4. Shipping on the middle St Lawrence and Richelieu rivers
  • 5. Ocean shipping and trade
  • 6. John Young, Hugh Allan, and the advent of ocean steamshipping
  • PART TWO. RAILWAYS
  • 7. The Champlain and St Lawrence: Montreal's pioneer railway
  • 8. The St Lawrence and Atlantic Railway: the first stage 1844-6
  • 9. The completion of the St Lawrence and Atlantic 1846-53
  • 10. Western railway projects and rivalries 1846-53
  • 11. The Montreal and New York Railway 1849-53
  • PART THREE. INDUSTRY
  • 12. The rise of Montreal as a manufacturing centre
  • 13. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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