Cover

Contents

Preface

Notes on the Biographies

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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 (fl. 1778–95)

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)

Contributors

Illustration Credits

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