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Sir William C. Macdonald : a biography /

Born into a prominent Scottish family on Prince Edward Island, Macdonald rejected his Catholic upbringing and left home when he was eighteen. After three years in Boston as a bookkeeper he headed to Montreal and began to work as a commission agent. By 1868 Macdonald had become the leading manufactur...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fong, William Jesse, 1948-
Autor Corporativo: Fondation Macdonald Stewart
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : Published for the Macdonald-Stewart Foundation by McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007.
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505 0 |a CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON THE SOURCES -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN? MACDONALDâ€?S ANCESTRY AND EARLY INFLUENCES, TO 1848 -- Chapter Two MACDONALDâ€?S EARLY CAREER IN NORTH AMERICA: FROM BOOKKEEPER TO TOBACCO MANUFACTURER, 1848â€?1861 -- Chapter Three MACDONALD THE TOBACCO KING, 1861â€?1917 -- Chapter Four THE ISLAND LEGACY, DOMESTIC LIFE, AND THE END OF CAPTAIN JOHNâ€?S DREAM, 1864â€?1906 -- Chapter Five THE EVOLUTION OF PRACTICAL EDUCATION AT McGILL, CIRCA 1850â€?1880 
505 8 |a Chapter Six MACDONALDâ€?S EARLY PHILANTHROPY: THE FRASER INSTITUTE, McGILL UNIVERSITY, AND HIS SEARCH FOR FAMILY, CIRCA 1870â€?1892Chapter Seven THE MACDONALD-ROBERTSON MOVEMENT AND THE FOUNDING OF MACDONALD COLLEGE, 1899â€?1909 -- Chapter Eight MACDONALD COLLEGE AND McGILL UNIVERSITY: EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOR A NEW CENTURY, 1893â€?1914 -- Chapter Nine TOBACCO WITH A HEART: MACDONALDâ€?S PERSONALITY, SCOTTISHNESS, LATER YEARS, AND LEGACY -- NOTES -- INDEX 
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