Canada's entrepreneurs : from the fur trade to the 1929 stock market crash ; portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian biography

edited by J. Andrew Ross and Andrew D. Smith under the direction of John English and Réal Bélanger

"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, and whose entrepreneurialism has shaped the face of Canadian business as we know it

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Alternative title:	Dictionary of Canadian biography.
Year of publication:	c 2011
Authors:	Ross, J. Andrew ; Smith, Andrew ; English, John ; Bélanger, Réal
Publisher:	Toronto [u. a.] : University of Toronto Press
Subject:	Unternehmer \| Entrepreneurs \| Führungskräfte \| Managers \| Geschichte \| History \| Kanada \| Canada \| Führungskraft \| Geschichte 1629-1929 \| 1629-1929
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	xxvi, 580 S Ill 23 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Biografie ; Biography
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Section 1: Doing Business in the New World -- John Guy (d. 1629) -- Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye (1632-1702) -- François Hazeur (d. 1708) -- Charlotte-Françoise Juchereau de Saint-Denis, known as Comtesse de Saint-Laurent (Viennay-Pachot; Dauphin de La Forest) (d. 1732) -- François Havy (d. 1766) -- Marie-Anne Barbel (Fornel) (1704-93) -- Joseph-Michel Cadet (1719-81) -- Charles Robin (d. 1824) -- Muquinna (d. 1795) -- Section 2: The Commercial Empire of the St Lawrence after 1763 -- Louise de Ramezay (1705-76) -- Aaron Hart (d. 1800) -- Joshua Mauger (d. 1788) -- François Baby (1733-1820) -- George Allsopp (d. 1805) -- Pierre Foretier (1738-1815) -- James McGill (1744-1813) -- Robert Hamilton (1753-1809) -- John Molson (1763-1836) -- John McLoughlin (1784-1857) -- Section 3: Maritime Enterprise -- Enos Collins (1774-1871) -- Benjamin Bowring (d. 1846) -- Sir Samuel Cunard (1787-1865) -- James William Carmichael (1819-1903) -- Robert Tinson Holman (1833-1906) -- John Fitzwilliam Stairs (1848-1904) -- Gilbert White Ganong (1851-1917) -- Section 4: The Industrial Heartland -- William Price (1789-1867) -- John Redpath (1796-1869) -- John Kinder Labatt (1803-66) -- Isaac Buchanan (1810-83) -- Theodor August Heintzman (1817-99) -- James Miller Williams (1818-90) -- Hart Almerrin Massey (1823-96) -- William Notman (1826-91) -- Louis-Adélard Senécal (1829-87) -- Section 5: Railwaymen and Network Creators -- Sir Hugh Allan (1810-82) -- John Rudolphus Booth (1827-1925) -- Sir Robert Gillespie Reid (1842-1908) -- Sir William Cornelius Van Horne (1843-1915) -- Sir Edward Seaborne Clouston (1849-1912) -- Alphonse Desjardins (1854-1920) -- Sir Adam Beck (1857-1925) Section 6: Brand Names and Big Business Timothy Eaton (1834-1907) -- George Albertus Cox (1840-1914) -- Sir John Morison Gibson (1842-1929) -- Sir Byron Edmund Walker (1848-1924) -- Wilmot Deloui Matthews (1850-1919) -- Anson McKim (1855-1917) -- Peter Charles Larkin (1855-1930) -- Georges-Élie Amyot (1856-1930) -- Sir Rodolphe Forget (1861-1919) -- Gordon Morton McGregor (1873-1922) -- Section 7: The West Booms -- Fanny Bendixen (d. 1899) -- Robert Dunsmuir (1825-89) -- Francis Jones Barnard (1829-89) -- François-Xavier Letendre, dit Batoche (d. 1901) -- Rosetta Ernestine Watson (Carr) (1845-1907) -- Ellen Cashman (d. 1925) -- Chang Toy (1857-1921) -- William Forbes Alloway (1852-1930) -- William Edward Cochrane (1858-1929).
ISBN:	1-4426-1286-X ; 1-4426-4478-8 ; 978-1-4426-1286-0 ; 978-1-4426-4478-6
Classification:	Unternehmensführung ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Kanada
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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