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Building Canada
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ISBN: 128205659X 9786612056598 1442671629 9781442671621 0802034497 0802068987 9780802068989 9780802034496 Year: 1991 Publisher: Toronto

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Building Canada tells the story of the public works that helped to transform Canada from wilderness to a modern country.


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Ferranti-Packard : pioneers in Canadian electrical manufacturing
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ISBN: 0773563814 Year: 1994 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Through their case-study of the evolution of a relatively small manufacturer such as Ferranti-Packard, Ball and Vardalas address a number of broader themes in the history of Canadian business and technology. Ferranti-Packard was British-owned and thus provides a revealing subject for the authors' investigation of the impact of foreign direct investment on Canadian industrial and technological capabilities. An important theme in this analysis is the interplay of British and North American corporate cultures. Ball and Vardalas explain the complex nature of technical and managerial relationships between subsidiaries and parent firms, demonstrating that Ferranti-Packard did not passively receive parent-firm expertise but was highly innovative in product design and marketing philosophy. The association between government and business in the development and direction of technology in Canadian industries since the Second World War is also explored.

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