Business History
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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 | |
 NEW! Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890A New History for the Twenty-First Century |
Colonialism and Capitalism: A New History of Canada offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are … | 444 | View | ||
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From NEW! Companies and CompetitionSelkirk, the Saulteaux, and the Re-establishment of Monopoly in the 1820s From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the flourishing of the Hudson Bay Company as it triumphed over its competition and discusses westward expansion, the Selkirk settlement and the Saulteaux. | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From  ConclusionFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Howitt concludes his analysis of the Kitchener-Waterloo tech sector and how, despite its collapse, Research in Motion led the way to continued success. | Chuck Howitt | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Data’s Move to the FrontFrom: Shifting the Balance |
Readings in part 1 of this text explore how companies combine intuition with data and analytics to drive competitive wedges in their markets. This chapter discusses the emergence of technologies … | Mark Schrutt | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From  DénouementFrom: Merchant Princes |
Traces the last years of the family companies to the eventual sale in 1973 after Arthur Stair’s death with no one ready to take over the family businesses | James D. Frost | 24 | 2003 | $2.40 Add |
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From Down to Business in the “New” CanadaFrom: Merchant Princes |
1867-1906. Examines how the family adapted to the new canada after confederation. The ropemaking business, the final days of wood, wind and sail, their shipping agency busines, looks at the union … | James D. Frost | 36 | 2003 | $3.60 Add |
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From Engineers for HireFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Discusses the early staff additions at Research in Motion, most notably the addition of Jim Balsillie. Reviews the development of RIM during the late 1980s and early 1990s. | Chuck Howitt | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
