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Eye on the Future : Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Calgary :
University of Calgary Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Content""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Meeting Place""; ""The Blackfoot""; ""The Coming of Montana Traders""; ""Hamilton and Healy's Trading Post""; ""Calgary's Changing Business System""; ""2 I.G. Baker & Co.: American Enterprise in the Wagon-Road Era""; ""I. G. Baker & Co. and its Networks of Stores""; ""Isaac Gilbert Baker and the Founding of a Trading Company""; ""Expansion in Montana""; ""Trading in the Canadian Prairies Begins""; ""Establishing a General Store in Calgary""; ""Survival and Expansion""
- ""Responding to the Needs of the Mounted Police""""Achieving Growth through Ties to Native People""; ""Changing Natural Environment""; ""Prosperity in the Mid- and Late 1870s""; ""I. G. Baker & Co.'s Relationship with its Main Competitor, Power & Bro.""; ""Ongoing Commitment to Banking""; ""Expanding Merchandise Sales""; ""New Management at the Calgary Store""; ""Sources of Beef""; ""I. G. Baker & Co. and Capitalism""; ""3 Hudson's Bay Company: British Enterprise in the Wagon-Road Era""; ""Network of Trading Posts and Stores in Alberta""
- ""John Bunn and the Establishment of a Store in Calgary""""Conflict between Richard Hardisty and Robert Hamilton""; ""John Bunn and the Continuing Quest for Business""; ""James A. Grahame and Calgary Business""; ""Angus Fraser: New Manager""; ""Charles J. Brydges and New Business Opportunities""; ""An Uncertain Future""; ""Charles J. Brydges' Visit to Calgary""; ""4 Rails and Marketing""; ""Impact of the Canadian Pacific Railway""; ""Overcoming Barriers to Inland Transportation""; ""Richard Hardisty Responds to the Canadian Pacific""; ""I. G. Baker & Co. and the Canadian Pacific""
- ""Canadian Pacific and the Calgary Townsite""""Business in Calgary after the Arrival of the Canadian Pacific""; ""Coping with the Depression in the Mid-1880s""; ""Business Opportunities during the Saskatchewan Rebellion""; ""Peacetime Business""; ""5 The Emergence of the Town of Calgary""; ""Natural Advantages of Calgary""; ""The Grid""; ""George Murdoch: Harness and Saddle Maker""; ""Isaac S. Freeze: A General Merchant""; ""Specialization in Commerce""; ""Rankin & Allan: Dry Goods Merchants""; ""The Movement for Incorporation""; ""Calgary's Early Government""
- ""Hamlets, Villages, and Settlers in the Bow Valley""""6 Creating Banking Services""; ""Informal Private Credit Networks""; ""Private Banks""; ""Lafferty & Smith""; ""LeJeune, Smith & Co.""; ""Lafferty & Moore: Women in the Banking Business""; ""Chartered Banks""; ""Imperial Bank of Canada""; ""Bank of Montreal""; ""Responding to the Calgary Government's Financial Needs""; ""Financial Environment""; ""7 Building the Ranching Community""; ""Canadian Pacific Stockyards""; ""Land and the Rise of Big Ranch Companies in the Bow Valley""; ""American Roots""; ""Severe Winter of 1886-1887""