Books – Business History

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  The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers

  Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise

  Paul D. Earl (Author)

  The first in-depth history of the UGG.

  Published October 2019 | Agriculture & Food, Business History, History

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  Snacks

  A Canadian Food History

  Janis Thiessen (Author)

  A book with bite.

  Published September 2017 | Agriculture & Food, Business History, History, Labour Studies, Oral History & Storytelling, Social History

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  First Nations Gaming in Canada

  Yale D. Belanger (Editor)

  While games of chance have been part of the Aboriginal cultural landscape since before European contact, large-scale commercial gaming facilities within First Nations communities are a relatively new phenomenon in Canada. First Nations Gaming in Canada is the first multidisciplinary study of the role of gaming in indigenous communities north of the 49th parallel.

  Published February 2011 | Business History, History, Indigenous Studies

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  Formidable Heritage

  Manitoba’s North and the Cost of Development, 1870 to 1930

  Jim Mochoruk (Author)

  Although climate and geography make our northern condition apparent, Canadians often forget about the north and its problems. Nevertheless, for the generation of historians that included Lower, Creighton, and Morton, the northern rivers, lakes, forests, and plains were often seen as primary characters in the drama of nation building. Jim Mochoruk shows how government and business worked together to transform what had been the exclusive fur-trading preserve of the Hudson’s Bay Company into an industrial hinterland.

  Published June 2004 | Business History, Environmental Studies, History, Resource Management

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  Mac Runciman

  A Life in the Grain Trade

  Paul D. Earl (Author)

  One of the most turbulent periods in the history of prairie agriculture is chronicled in this book about the life and times of Alexander “Mac” Runciman, the Saskatchewan farmer who led the United Grain Growers as president from 1961 to 1981. Mac Runciman: A Life in the Grain Trade tells the story of how Runciman rose through the ranks of the UGG to play a central role in the fierce debates over the modernization of grain handling, subsidized freight rates, and the role of The Canadian Wheat Board.

  Published October 2000 | Agriculture & Food, Biography, Business History, History

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  Indian-European Trade Relations

  in the Lower Saskatchewan River Region to 1840

  Paul C. Thistle (Author)

  This study examines the development of fur trade relations between the European traders working for the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Western Woods Cree of the lower Saskatchewan River region centred on Cumberland House (modern day Saskatchewan) and The Pas (modern day Manitoba).

  Published February 1986 | Critical Studies in Native History, Business History, History, Indigenous Studies