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The gazette.
Year: 1867 Publisher: Montreal.

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J.W. McConnell
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ISBN: 0773577807 1282864580 9786612864582 0773574689 9780773574687 9781282864580 6612864583 9780773577800 9780773532700 Year: 2008 Publisher: Montréal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press

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J.W. McConnell (1877-1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen of his generation - in Canada and internationally. Early in his career McConnell established the Montreal office of the Standard Chemical Company and began selling bonds and shares in both North America and Europe, establishing relationships that would lead to his enormous financial success. He was involved in numerous businesses, from tramways to ladies' fashion to mining, and served on the boards of several corporations. For nearly fifty years he was president of St Laurence Sugar and late in life he became the owner and publisher of the Montreal Star. McConnell was an indefatigable and formidable fundraiser for the YMCA, the war effort of 1914/18, hospitals, and McGill University, where he served as governor for almost three decades. In 1937 he established what would become The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, the first major foundation in Canada and still one of the best endowed. J.W. McConnell was a principled and brilliant visionary with a strong work ethic and a deep commitment to the public good, a Rockefellerian figure in both big business and high society who quietly became one of the greatest philanthropists of his time. His life story - told in uncompromising detail by William Fong - is a study of raising, spending, and giving away money on the grandest scale.


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After Auschwitz : one man's story
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ISBN: 0773577300 128285030X 9786612850301 077356036X Year: 2007 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Gruenwald paints his life story onto the larger canvas of some of the great conflicts and movements of the twentieth century. He offers a vivid portrayal of growing up affluent and Jewish in class-conscious Hungary in the interwar period and of the initial promise and disillusioning reality of Hungarian communism.


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In its corporate capacity : the Seminary of Montreal as a business institution, 1816-1876
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ISBN: 1282850768 9786612850769 0773561099 Year: 1986 Publisher: Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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The end of the Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-8 assured the survival of the Seminary. Assuming a reinforced social and ideological role in industrializing Montreal, the Seminary benefited from new corporate powers, rights of recruitment, and income, while its expanding social role ensured its protection by an appreciate bourgeoisie. Emphasizing economic rather than religious history, Brian Young's study compares the Seminary's pre-industrial forms of income to its new capitalist revenues from land sales, subdivision developments, bonds, and rentier income from office, warehousing, and urban-housing properties. Its changing income required new forms of management and the priest-manager was eventually assisted by an accountant, architect, surveyor, clerk, and several notaries and lawyers. The Seminary played a central role in the development of popular schools in Montreal, and in financing and directing social institutions such as hospitals, newspapers, libraries, and national societies, the Seminary of Montreal legitimized the changing class structure of industrializing Montreal.


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Saisir sa chance
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ISBN: 2760324834 9782760324831 9782760324848 2760324842 2760324826 9782760324824 9782760324855 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ottawa

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David Culver, figure clé tant du milieu des affaires que du milieu culturel canadien, raconte son enfance à Montréal, ses études aux universités McGill et Harvard et son service militaire pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Il décrit surtout sa spectaculaire ascension au sein d'Alcan, jusqu'à accéder au poste de président-directeur général, devenant du coup le chef d'une des plus grandes sociétés multinationales du Canada, dont le siège social était à Montréal.  Ces mémoires lèvent le voile sur la gestion d'une multinationale bien enracinée en sol québécois. Il propose des conseils pragmatiques sur la manière de cultiver le talent, développer la technologie et surmonter les défis au sein d'une entreprise qui opère aux quatre coins de la planète.  Au fil de délicieuses anecdotes et d'inoubliables rencontres avec des grands du XXe siècle - dont Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger et Jawaharlal Nehru - David Culver se révèle un imposant leader aux intérêts et aux talents multiples.  Dans ses mémoires, David Culver médite sur sa passion pour l'architecture - et ses initiatives de protection du patrimoine montréalais par l'entremise de la Maison Alcan - et l'importance de la musique et du sport dans sa vie. Saisir sa chance témoigne de l'optimisme de Culver, qui a de tout temps cru que les choses les plus extraordinaires peuvent arriver lorsqu'on s'y attend le moins.

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