Download or read book Canada's Entrepreneurs written by John English and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an accessible overview of the rise of entrepreneurialism in Canada, it features portraits of 61 individuals organized thematically. Here, readers will meet a variety of seminal characters: the merchants of the first trading posts and the commercial empire of the St. Lawrence; the industrialists of the Maritimes, Central Canada, and the West; the railway builders and urban developers; and everyone in between."--Résumé de l'éditeur.