| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 580 pages) : illustrations, digital file |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Issued also in French under title: Les entrepreneurs canadiens, du commerce des fourrures au krach de 1929. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Notes on the Biographies""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Section 1: Doing Business in the New World""; ""John GUY (d. 1629)""; ""Charles Aubert de LA CHESNAYE (1632â€?1702)""; ""FranÃois HAZEUR (d. 1708)""; ""Charlotte-FranÃoise JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENIS, known as Comtesse de Saint-Laurent (Viennay-Pachot; Dauphin de La Forest) (d. 1732)""; ""FranÃois HAVY (d. 1766)""; ""Marie-Anne BARBEL (Fornel) (1704â€?93)""; ""Joseph-Michel CADET (1719â€?81)""; ""Charles ROBIN (d. 1824)""; ""MUQUINNA (fl. 1778â€?95)"" |
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""Section 2: The Commercial Empire of the St Lawrence after 1763""""Louise de RAMEZAY (1705â€?76)""; ""Aaron HART (d. 1800)""; ""Joshua MAUGER (d. 1788)""; ""FranÃois BABY (1733â€?1820)""; ""George ALLSOPP (d. 1805)""; ""Pierre FORETIER (1738â€?1815)""; ""James MCGILL (1744â€?1813)""; ""Robert HAMILTON (1753â€?1809)""; ""John MOLSON (1763â€?1836)""; ""John MCLOUGHLIN (1784â€?1857)""; ""Section 3: Maritime Enterprise""; ""Enos COLLINS (1774â€?1871)""; ""Benjamin BOWRING (d. 1846)""; ""Sir Samuel CUNARD (1787â€?1865)""; ""James William CARMICHAEL (1819â€?1903)"" |
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""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 SEN�CAL (1829�87)""; ""Section 5: Railwaymen and Network Creators""; ""Sir Hugh ALLAN (1810�82)"" |
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""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)"" |
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""Georges-Ã?lie AMYOT (1856â€?1930)""""Sir Rodolphe FORGET (1861â€?1919)""; ""Gordon Morton MCGREGOR (1873â€?1922)""; ""Section 7: The West Booms""; ""Fanny BENDIXEN (d. 1899)""; ""Robert DUNSMUIR (1825â€?89)""; ""Francis Jones BARNARD (1829â€?89)""; ""FranÃois-Xavier LETENDRE, dit Batoche (d. 1901)""; ""Rosetta Ernestine WATSON (Carr) (1845â€?1907)""; ""Ellen CASHMAN (d. 1925)""; ""Chang TOY (1857â€?1921)""; ""William Forbes ALLOWAY (1852â€?1930)""; ""William Edward COCHRANE (1858â€?1929)""; ""Contributors""; ""Illustration Credits""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Businesspeople -- Canada -- Biography.
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Businesspeople. |
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Canada. |
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Entrepreneurship -- Canada -- History.
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Entrepreneurship. |
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History. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Bélanger, Réal.
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English, John, 1945-
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Smith, Andrew, 1976-
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Ross, J. Andrew, 1971-
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| Added Title |
Dictionary of Canadian biography.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ross, Andrew. Canada's Entrepreneurs : From The Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2014 9781442644786 |
| ISBN |
9781442662322 (electronic book) |
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1442662328 (electronic book) |
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