History of specific companies / corporate history

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Imperial Standard

For over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada’s oil industry. But from 1899 onwards, two-thirds of the company was owned by an American giant, making Imperial Oil one of the largest foreign-controlled ...

One Job Town

 

There’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town ...

Crash to Paywall

In 2014, when Postmedia acquired Quebecor’s Sun Media newspaper and online assets, there was a sense that the recent history of newspapers was repeating itself not as comedy or tragedy, but as eulogy. ...

Wingwalkers

By (author) Peter Pigott
Categories: Aircraft and aviation

With unique insight and straightforward prose, Wingwalkers tells the saga of Canada’s other airline, a scrappy western mongrel that, through eight decades and numerous name changes--Canadian Airways, ...