Business History
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 18: Economic CollapseThe Great Depression of the 1930s |
This chapter recounts how successive downturns of the economy—from the 1913–15 recession to the 1929 crash—led to mass unemployment in Toronto and Montréal. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 19The Struggle Continues From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add | |
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From ![]() Chapter 2Stories My Grandfather Told Me From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add | |
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From ![]() Chapter 20A Fund for the Future From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 23: The Second World WarCapital's Saviour/Labour's Opportunity, 1939-45 |
This chapter looks at how Canada escaped the Great Depression as the state imposed full employment and expanded its direction of the economy under such departments as C. D. Howe’s … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 3Riding the Bucking Bronco From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 3: The Merger Movement and its MastermindsCapital Concentration, 1890-1929 |
This chapter traces how mergers, banks, and foreign investment reshaped Canadian industry after 1900, along with expansion in pulp and paper and automobile manufacturing. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 4Lessons from the Onion Patch From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add | |
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From ![]() Chapter 5Only the Land Matters From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 5: The West and the Wheat Economy, 1890-1929 |
This chapter examines development across Canada including the vast amounts of immigration that fuelled the resource-based economy in British Columbia and the wheat economy of the Prairies. | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 6Finding My Footing From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add | |
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From ![]() Chapter 7Entering the Fray From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add | |
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From ![]() Chapter 8Building a Future, Fighting the Past From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 8: Deindustrialization and the Maritimes in the 1920s |
This chapter traces the rise and fall of foreign-controlled companies such as British Empire Steel Corporation in Nova Scotia headed by Roy Wolvin. | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 9Assassination Attempt From: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add | |
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From ![]() Checks, Unbalanced: Why Competition Policy Has FailedFrom: The Big Fix |
In this chapter, Hearn and Bednar trace Canada’s competition policy from the 1889 Anti-Combines Act to the 1986 Competition Act, examining how neoliberal philosophy and the Chicago … | Denise Hearn; Vass Bednar | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |






