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Chodos, Robert

Leis, Andrea

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

New Readers Pr

Before the GST and before Free Trade, Brian Mulroney was a small-town boy who announced at age nineteen that he would one day be Prime Minister. This is his story.Growing up in the remote company town of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney was immersed in Québécois culture, in a close-knit community with an enduring social order and spirit of self-help. A hardworking electrician's son, he wanted to be "the guy who makes things happen." Mulroney pursued that goal through a meteoric career as a labour lawyer, an unswerving partisan for the Conservative cause in Quebec, the president of a major corporation. In 1984, equipped with a deep understanding of Quebec, a small-town sense of social compassion, and skill as a negotiator and businessman, he was ready to take on the nation.Informed by interviews with Mulroney, his aides and enemies, Brian Mulroney: The Boy from Baie Comeau is a remarkable portrait of the political ascent of one of Canada's most controversial Prime Ministers.

Brian Mulroney: The Boy from Baie-Comeau

Biographies & Memoirs

Auf Der Maur, Nick

Murphy, Rae

Historical

Lorimer

The CPR: A century of corporate welfare

In 1880 the Canadian Pacific Railway was born with an enormously rich legacy--millions of acres of land, millions in cash and plenty of existing rail lines. From an auspicious beginning it grew immensely wealthy and powerful.Robert Chodos, in an unorthodox company history, explains how the CPR did it. He shows how the Railway's growth came primarily as a result of continued favourable treatment from Ottawa, how it managed to avoid government takeover while receiving enormous public subsidies, how it continued to earn huge profits, and how it turned itself into a highly-diversified conglomerate involved in real estate, pulp and paper, mining, and oil as well as every form of transportation.The CPR: A Century of Corporate Welfare is a sharp, uncompromising account of the rise to power of Canada's most iconic corporation.

The CPR: A Century of Corporate Welfare

Business & Money

International

Economics

Winners, Losers: The 1976 Tory Leadership Convention

This book offers a raw, off-the-record account of the 1976 Progressive Conservative Party convention, a crucial passage in the turbulent history of one of Canada's most enduring political institutions.While the convention was on, the authors were at work behind the scenes, talking to the delegates as well as the candidates and the party power brokers, and attending all the convention events: the balloting, speeches, policy sessions and tributes, the hospitality suites, hoedowns, victory parties and breakfasts. The result is a lively informative look at the nuts-and-bolts of party politics.Winners, Losers is a fast-paced account of an important period in Canadian conservative politics, with portraits of its dominant figures--Joe Clark, Dalton Camp, Paul Hellyer, Brian Mulroney.

History

Brown, Patrick

Americas

Close to the Heart

Staebler, Edna

Thomas, William

Fretwell, Kathy

Stafford, Ellen

McCartney, Timothy

Hanson, Anita

Knowles, Paul

Page, Joanne

Harvor, Elisabeth

SHIELDS, CAROL

Crusz, Rienzi

Wheatly, Patience

Rapoport, Janis

Martindale, Sheila

Parameswaran, Uma

Abram, Patricia

Morier, Roger

Knowles, Mary

English Garden Publishers

The Unmaking of Canada: The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945

Hamovitch, Eric

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