Canada's entrepreneurs [electronic resource] : from the fur trade to the 1929 stock market crash : portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian biography under the direction of John English and Réal Bélanger / edited by J. Andrew Ross and Andrew D. Smith.

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"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 who...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bélanger, Réal
English, John, 1945-
Smith, Andrew, 1976-
Ross, J. Andrew, 1971-
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2011.
Subjects:
Businesspeople > Canada > Biography.
Entrepreneurship > Canada > History.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
eBook Business Collection (EBSCOhost) - North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
EBSCO eBooks: 2011 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Canada's Entrepreneurs: From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Under the Direction of John English and Réal Bélanger
Other Uniform Title:Dictionary of Canadian biography.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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).