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Thinking big : a history of the Winnipeg business community to the Second World War / Jim Blanchard

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Blanchard, Jim, 1948-
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Winnipeg, MB : Great Plains Publications, [2021]
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Contents
The Fur Trade Years -- The Rise of the Hudson's Bay Company -- The Struggle to Control the Fur Trade -- Free Traders -- St. Paul Connections -- Prelude to Confederation -- Becoming the Fifth Province -- Louis Riel and the Red River Resistance -- Treaties -- Métis Land -- Winnipeg Business Community: The Early Years, 1870-1880s -- The Rise of the Wheat Economy -- A Changing HBC -- Early Entrepreneurs -- Establishing a Board of Trade -- End of the Land Boom -- Competition for the CPR -- After the Boom: Winnipeg at the Turn of the Century -- The Lumber Business -- Wholesalers and Retailers -- A Second Era of Growth -- Developing the Agricultural Industry -- Building the Aqueduct -- Winnipeg General Strike, May-June 1919 -- Growth of the Industrial Economy: Winnipeg in the 1920s and 1930s -- Board of Trade -- Freight Rates -- The Garment Industry -- The Changing Wheat Market -- The New Fur Trade -- Great-West Life -- Winnipeg Electric -- North Star Oil
Summary
"From pre-contact Indigenous trading through 1939, Thinking Big examines the history of businesses, business leaders, and organizations in Winnipeg. Discover how the Winnipeg business community dealt with challenges such as the Great Depression and the post-World War I depression, and organized itself to take advantage of periods of growth and prosperity."--
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1773370596 electronic book
9781773370590 electronic book
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