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Canada's Entrepreneurs

From The Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography

by (author) Andrew Ross & Andrew Smith

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Dec 2011
Category
General, Reference, General, Entrepreneurship
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442612860
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $56.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442644786
    Publish Date
    Dec 2011
    List Price
    $109.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442662544
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $46.95

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Description

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.

This captivating collection of biographies profiles Canada's most prominent and innovative business people from the early 1600s through the first quarter of the twentieth century. Beginning with an accessible overview of the rise of entrepreneurialism in Canada, it features portraits of 61 individuals organized thematically. Here, readers will meet a variety of seminal characters: the merchants of the first trading posts and the commercial empire of the St. Lawrence; the industrialists of the Maritimes, Central Canada, and the West; the railway builders and urban developers; and everyone in between.

Bringing to the fore new Dictionary of Canadian Biography research on the rise of Canadian entrepreneurialism - one of the least explored yet most important themes in our history - this book showcases Canada's long-running tradition of business innovation and growth.

About the authors

J. Andrew Ross is a postdoctoral fellow in the Historical Data Research Unit, University of Guelph, Ontario.

Andrew Ross' profile page

Andrew Smith is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and author of British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation: Constitution Making in an Era of Anglo-Globalization. Recently, he has published on the co-evolution of political institutions and organizational cultures in other regions of the British Empire, such as Hong Kong, India, and the Caribbean.

Andrew Smith's profile page