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Richard J. Grace, Opium and Empire: The Lives of William Jardine and James Matheson.Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014, 2016. xvii + 453pp., illustrations, maps,notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-7735-4452-9, Cdn $34.95, Paper; ISBN 978-0-7735-4726-1, Cdn $ 29.95. Read the book

CBHA/ACHA members and their guests are invited to a special lecture at McGill University titled Keep or Shred? How to get Businesses to Start Valuing their Archives.  In this presentation, head of communication and editorial services Anders Sjöman will share thoughts and

A preview video is now available for the upcoming documentary on the history of the Canadian financial system.  Titled Stability and Crisis: The History of the Canadian Financial System, the documentary is produced by acclaimed director Kevin Ferraday and will

Geoffrey Poitras of Simon Fraser University reviews the book Back From the Brink: Lessons from the Canadian Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Crisis by Paul Halpern, Caroline Cakebread, Christopher C. Nicholls and Poonam Puri (2016). Read the book review HERE.

       The Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Canadian Business History.

David González Agudo of University of British Columbia reviews the book Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and published by University of Chicago Press (2016). Chris Armstrong of York University reviews the book

The Business History division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) invites you to submit a paper, extended abstract, case, symposium or workshop proposal for the 47th annual ASAC conference. The conference theme, “Harvest,” comes from our understanding of the

“Conversations across time, place, and culture,” at the University of British Columbia, June 3-5, 2019 The Canadian Business History Association/l’Association canadienne pour l’histoire des affaire (CBHA/ACHA) is an affiliated committee of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). In this capacity the CBHA/ACHA is able to sponsor

The book launch presentation for the CBHA/ACHA book Becoming 150: 150 Years of Canadian Business History is now posted to the organization’s YouTube Channel. 150 Years of Canadian Business History was a national 2-day conference highlighting 150 Years of Canadian

On Monday, October 1, Queen’s University will hold a talk entitled “In Praise of Sir John A Macdonald: Historical icon meets the PC brigade”.  Speakers will be Conrad Black, presently a columnist with the National Post, and Joe Martin, Professor of Business History at the