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1 online resource (xviii, 733 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-711) and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Plates""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER ONE: A Boyhood in Muskoka: Blood, Religion, Sentiment, and Community, 1877�91""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Onward, Ever Onward, Jack: Toronto and the Making of a Man, 1892�99""; ""CHAPTER THREE: Selling Wood Products and Settling Down, 1899�1907""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: Partner, Promoter, and Believer, 1907�1914""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: Bittersweet: St Lawrence Sugar and Regulation, 1912�63""; ""CHAPTER SIX: Keep the Home Fires Burning: Fundraising for the YMCA in Peace and for Canada in the Great War, 1909�19"" |
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""CHAPTER SEVEN: Developing and Financing Tramways and Electricity, 1890�1925""""CHAPTER EIGHT: The Rise and Fall of Holding Companies for Power and Paper, 1925�39""; ""CHAPTER NINE: Almost a Jack of All Trades, 1911�39""; ""CHAPTER TEN: Insecurities: McConnell's Investments, 1921�39""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN: Wider, Ever Wider Shall Thy Bounds Be Set: Social Life in Montreal, 1901�63""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE: For King and Empire, 1927�39""; ""CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Faith and Works: From Charity to Social Welfare and from Fundraising to Philanthropy, 1922�45"" |
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""CHAPTER FOURTEEN: There'll Always Be an England: The Second World War, 1939�45""""CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Dilemma of Conservative Politics, 1911�63""; ""CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Press Barons, Publishers, and Editors: The Montreal Daily Star and Other Newspapers, 1925�53""; ""CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Grandescunt Aucta Labore: Building McGill University for the Future, 1920�63""; ""CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: We Give Thee but Thine Own: The Making of the McConnell Foundation, 1928�63""; ""CHAPTER NINTEEN: Keep Right on to the End of the Road, 1945�63"" |
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""APPENDIX ONE: Survey of J.W. McConnell�s Investments, 1921�51""""APPENDIX TWO: A Glimpse of the Interconnectedness of McConnell�s Circle""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
McConnell, J. W. (John Wilson), 1877-1963.
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McConnell, J. W. (John Wilson), 1877-1963. |
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McConnell, John Wilson, 1877-1963. |
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Businessmen -- Canada -- Biography.
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Businessmen. |
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Canada. |
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Biographies.
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Capitalists and financiers -- Canada -- Biography.
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Capitalists and financiers. |
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Directors of corporations -- Canada -- Biography.
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Directors of corporations. |
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Philanthropists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Philanthropists. |
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Montréal (Québec) -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fong, William J.W. McConnell : Financier, Philanthropist, Patriot Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,c2014 9780773532700 |
| ISBN |
9780773574687 (electronic book) |
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0773574689 (electronic book) |
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1282864580 |
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9781282864580 |
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9780773532700 (print) |
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