By Andrew Ross,Andrew Smith
Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. those names are as a lot part of our nationwide id as our hockey groups and our literature, yet few people understand a lot in regards to the humans in the back of them - the people who have energized this country's fiscal lifestyles for over 4 centuries, and whose entrepreneurialism has formed the face of Canadian enterprise as we all know it.
This fascinating choice of biographies profiles Canada's such a lot well-known and leading edge enterprise humans from the early 1600s during the first sector of the 20th century. starting with an available evaluation of the increase of entrepreneurialism in Canada, it gains pictures of sixty one members prepared thematically. the following, readers will meet a number of seminal characters: the retailers of the 1st buying and selling posts and the industrial empire of the St. Lawrence; the industrialists of the Maritimes, important Canada, and the West; the railway developers and concrete builders; and everybody in between.
Bringing to the fore new Dictionary of Canadian Biography learn at the upward thrust of Canadian entrepreneurialism - one of many least explored but most vital issues in our background - this e-book showcases Canada's long-running culture of commercial innovation and growth.
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