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

English, John, 1945- (Added Author). Bélanger, Réal. (Added Author). Ross, J. Andrew. (Added Author). Smith, Andrew, 1976- (Added Author).

Summary: 'Entrepreneurship' is a popular term in modern society, used by businesses hoping to encourage innovation among their employees, politicians aiming to raise national productivity, and academic researchers trying to understand economic growth. This book contains a sample of the biographies of those who energized economic life in the northern part of the continent over four centuries. The book showcases the fine work of the contributors and editorial staff of the Dictionary of Canadian biography, one of the most valuable and accessible repositories of Canada's past where readers may learn more about the enterprising figures who have animated Canadian business. Included in this texts are short biographies of several notable Atlantic Canadians, including Samuel Cunard, Gilbert White Ganong, Benjamin Bowring and James William Carmichael, along with dozens of other prominent entrepreneurs from all regions of Canada.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442612860 :
ISBN: 144261286X (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxvi, 580 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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) --