Table of Contents
Preface
Notes on the Biographies
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Doing Business in the New World
John Guy (d. 1629)
Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye (1632-1702)
François Hazeur (d. 1708)
Charlotte-Françoise Juchereau de Saint-Denis, known as Comtesse de Saint-Laurent (Viennay-Pachot; Dauphin de La Forest) (d. 1732)
François Havy (d. 1766)
Marie-Anne Barbel (Fornel) (1704-93)
Joseph-Michel Cadet (1719-81)
Charles Robin (d. 1824)
Muquinna (d. 1795)
Section 2: The Commercial Empire of the St Lawrence after 1763
Louise de Ramezay (1705-76)
Aaron Hart (d. 1800)
Joshua Mauger (d. 1788)
François Baby (1733-1820)
George Allsopp (d. 1805)
Pierre Foretier (1738-1815)
James McGill (1744-1813)
Robert Hamilton (1753-1809)
John Molson (1763-1836)
John McLoughlin (1784-1857)
Section 3: Maritime Enterprise
Enos Collins (1774-1871)
Benjamin Bowring (d. 1846)
Sir Samuel Cunard (1787-1865)
James William Carmichael (1819-1903)
Robert Tinson Holman (1833-1906)
John Fitzwilliam Stairs (1848-1904)
Gilbert White Ganong (1851-1917)
Section 4: The Industrial Heartland
William Price (1789-1867)
John Redpath (1796-1869)
John Kinder Labatt (1803-66)
Isaac Buchanan (1810-83)
Theodor August Heintzman (1817-99)
James Miller Williams (1818-90)
Hart Almerrin Massey (1823-96)
William Notman (1826-91)
Louis-Adélard Senécal (1829-87)
Section 5: Railwaymen and Network Creators
Sir Hugh Allan (1810-82)
John Rudolphus Booth (1827-1925)
Sir Robert Gillespie Reid (1842-1908)
Sir William Cornelius Van Horne (1843-1915)
Sir Edward Seaborne Clouston (1849-1912)
Alphonse Desjardins (1854-1920)
Sir Adam Beck (1857-1925)
Section 6: Brand Names and Big Business
Timothy Eaton (1834-1907)
George Albertus Cox (1840-1914)
Sir John Morison Gibson (1842-1929)
Sir Byron Edmund Walker (1848-1924)
Wilmot Deloui Matthews (1850-1919)
Anson McKim (1855-1917)
Peter Charles Larkin (1855-1930)
Georges-Élie Amyot (1856-1930)
Sir Rodolphe Forget (1861-1919)
Gordon Morton McGregor (1873-1922)
Section 7: The West Booms
Fanny Bendixen (d. 1899)
Robert Dunsmuir (1825-89)
Francis Jones Barnard (1829-89)
François-Xavier Letendre, dit Batoche (d. 1901)
Rosetta Ernestine Watson (Carr) (1845-1907)
Ellen Cashman (d. 1925)
Chang Toy (1857-1921)
William Forbes Alloway (1852-1930)
William Edward Cochrane (1858-1929)
Contributors
Illustration Credits
Index
