New Book Review Added
Mark Bourrie, Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul, Biblioasis, 2022. 414 pages, ISBN 9781771964944, $24.95. Read the book review HERE.
New Book Review Added
Susan E. Schoop, Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698-1842, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. xii + 193pp., plates, tables, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover; ISBN 978-988-8528-50-9. HK$570.00. Read the book review HERE.
The 2023 CBHA/ACHA Award for Best Article in Canadian Business History Winner – Matthew J. Bellamy
Business Against Drunk Driving: The Neoliberal State, Labatt Brewery, and the Creation of the ‘Responsible Drinker’, Enterprise & Society (2022), 1–24. Providing an insightful blend of business and cultural history, Bellamy’s exploration of how, in the 1980s, brewer Labatt’s utilized
The 2023 CBHA/ACHA Award for Best Book in Canadian Business History Winner – Daniel Robinson
The CBHA/ACHA, Canada’s leading organization for the study of business in Canada, is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2023 Best Book in Canadian Business History winner: Daniel Robinson Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930-1975. CBHA/ACHA member Daniel
New Book Review Added
Mark Kuhlberg, Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty: Canada’s Aerial War Against Forest Pests, 1913-1930, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2022, xx + 261pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover; ISBN 9781487508975 $95.00, Paper; ISBN: 9781487526474 $42.95. Read the book
Honouring Lynton ‘Red’ Wilson – Video Presentation
The CBHA/ACHA hosted a cocktail reception to honour Lynton ‘Red’ Wilson for his generous gift of $2 million to endow the CBHA/ACHA through the Wilson Foundation Endowment for the Study of Canadian Business History. Together with an additional $1 million
CBHA/ACHA Talk: Canadian Technology – Building on the Past to Secure a Future Rooted in Innovation
Eva Lau, a successful entrepreneur-turned-investor and the founding partner of Two Small Fish Ventures in Canada, will share her insights on the rise and fall of technology trends, the dynamic forces driving entrepreneurship and innovation, and how lessons of the
Two New Book Reviews Added
Laurence B. Mussio, Whom Fortune Favours: The Bank of Montreal and the Rise of North American Finance, Vol. One: A Dominion of Capital, 1817-1945, Vol. Two: Territories of Transformation, 1946-2017, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Vol. One: xxxix + 339pp., Vol.
Our Next CBHA/ACHA Talk: Living Business History – Inside the FTA, NAFTA, Deficit Fights & other battles
Join Tom D’Aquino, in conversation with author, consultant and longtime business broadcaster, Howard Green.
New Book Review Added
Barrie A. Wigmore, The Financial Crisis of 2008: A History of US Financial Markets, 2000-2012, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. viii + 410pp., figures, tables, index. Hardback; ISBN: 978-1-108-83763-7, Cdn $45.95. Read the book review HERE.