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New Book Review Now Available

New Book Review Now Available

Stephen R. Bown, The Company: The Rise and Fall of The Hudson’s Bay’s Empire, Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada, 2020, ix + 486pp., illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780385694070, $37.00, Paper; ISBN 9780385694094, $24.95. Read the book review HERE.

New Book Review Now Available

New Book Review Now Available

Brian Gettler, Colonialism’s Currency: Money, State, and First Nations in Canada, 1820-1950, Montréal, PQ, Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020,  xvii + 301pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780228001171, $120.00, Paper; ISBN 9780228001188, $37.95. Read the book review HERE. Note: 

Proceedings from the CBHA’s Sixth Annual General Meeting Now Available on the CBHA/ACHA YouTube Channel

Proceedings from the CBHA’s Sixth Annual General Meeting Now Available on the CBHA/ACHA YouTube Channel

The proceedings from the Fiscal 2021 Canadian Business History Associations (CBHA) Annual General Meeting are now available for viewing on the organization’s YouTube Channel. The proceedings include financial reports and discussion, the President’s Report from Joe Martin summarizing the accomplishments

CBHA Talk ‘The History of Business and Philanthropy’ Now Posted for Viewing on the CBHA/ACHA YouTube Channel

CBHA Talk ‘The History of Business and Philanthropy’ Now Posted for Viewing on the CBHA/ACHA YouTube Channel

The recent CBHA/ACHA Talk on The History of Business and Philanthropy is now available for viewing on the organization’s YouTube channel. Panelists Patricia Hardy, Professor Charles Harvey, and Steven Ayer discuss the historical interplay of business with philanthropy in light

Upcoming CBHA Webinar Talk: The History of Business and Philanthropy

Upcoming CBHA Webinar Talk: The History of Business and Philanthropy

Register and join us for the next CBHA/ACHA Webinar Talk on The History of Business and Philanthropy. This Talk will be held in conjunction with the CBHA/ACHA Annual General Meeting. Date: Wednesday January 26th, 2022Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pmLocation:

Canadian Business History Association’s 2022-23 Chris Kobrak Research Fellowship Open for Applications

Canadian Business History Association’s 2022-23 Chris Kobrak Research Fellowship Open for Applications

The Canadian Business History Association (CBHA), is offering support for a research project in an area of Canadian business history. Applicants are encouraged to think creatively in developing proposals that will result in an academic product (scholarly article, book project, digital, oral

CBHA/ACHA Webinar Talk “Fortunes & Family Feuds: The Chequered History of Family Controlled Public Companies” Now Posted on YouTube

CBHA/ACHA Webinar Talk “Fortunes & Family Feuds: The Chequered History of Family Controlled Public Companies” Now Posted on YouTube

The Canadian Business History Association’s public presentation of Fortunes & Family Feuds: The Chequered History of Family Controlled Public Companies, held on December 16th, is now available for viewing on the organizations YouTube Channel. This fascinating talk was moderated by

New Book Review Added

New Book Review Added

Andrea Benoit, Viva M·A·C: Aids, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of M·A·C Cosmetics, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. x + 278pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN /9781487500405, $82.00, Paper; ISBN 9781487520281, $31.05. Read the book review HERE.

Applications Now Open – The 2022 Desautels Research Fund in Private Enterprise, History & Law

Applications Now Open – The 2022 Desautels Research Fund in Private Enterprise, History & Law

The Marcel A. Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law offers support for a research project on private enterprise, law and history through the CBHA/ACHA. Applicants are encouraged to think creatively in developing proposals that will result in a

Nominations Open for 2021 CBHA Best Article in Canadian Business History Prize

Nominations Open for 2021 CBHA Best Article in Canadian Business History Prize

The Canadian Business History Association, Canada’s leading organization for the study of business in Canada, invites submissions for its annual $1000 Award for Best Article in Canadian Business History. The prize committee encourages the submission of articles from all methodological