Northern Enterprise

Northern Five Centuries of Canadian Business remains the only comprehensive history of business in Canada, beginning with the earliest European fishermen of the late fifteenth century and concluding with the dawn of the era of free trade in the 1980s. Grounded in scholarship yet highly readable, it includes accounts of well-known events like the building of the transcontinental railway and lesser-known stories such as the rise and fall of Massey-Ferguson. The book also considers the political influences on Canadian business, including debates over free trade and U.S. influence. Winner of the National Business Book Award.