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Leaning on the wind: under the spell of the great chinook
By Sid Marty. 1995
The legendary chinook is a warm Pacific wind that runs along the eastern slopes of Rockies. It can turn winter…
temporarily into spring, but it can also knock railway cars off their tracks. From his home in the foothills of the Rockies, Sid Marty begins a journey through Chinook Country, talking about its history and the extraordinary people he meets along the way. 1995.Écrivain-voyageur: Canada, Afrique (Omnibus)
By Maurice Genevoix. 2010
La passion de Maurice Genevoix pour les terres lointaines est peu connue. Pourtant, dès 1939, au Canada, il effectue un…
périple qui le conduit des rives du Saint-Laurent aux montagnes Rocheuses. Il réitère l'expérience en 1946 en visitant les pays du Maghreb et une partie de l'Afrique noire. Ses voyages lui inspirent d'abord des « carnets de route » dans lesquels il trace un portrait politique, économique, social de chaque pays. Ses analyses prémonitoires révèlent un Maurice Genevoix qu'on savait observateur et qui s'affirme fin stratège mais aussi écologiste avant même que ce mot ne figure dans le dictionnaire. 2010.Helena Rubinstein: la femme qui inventa la beauté
By Michèle Fitoussi. 2010
Il était une fois les Schneider 1871-1942
By Elvire De Brissac. 2007
Après l’achat du Creusot en 1836 par les frères Schneider, quatre générations se succèdent à la tête de cet empire…
devenu au fil des ans un mythe. Ce livre retrace l’histoire de la deuxième et de la troisième génération. Henri Schneider (1840-1898) tient épatamment la route : il réarme la France à la demande du gouvernement, le canon de 75, c’est lui, pas une seule grève durant son règne, sept enfants de deux mariages. Eugène II (1898-1942), lui, se voit traiter d’être « atrabilaire » et « odieux » par François de Wendel. Cet industriel est pourtant passionné des arbres, ce Creusotin dans l’âme se marie à Paris – pis, il fait un mariage d’amour – ce père passionné se brouille avec ses fils. Dès le début du siècle, l’électricité bouscule la vapeur, le syndicalisme s’affirme face aux patrons ; après la première guerre mondiale, les jeunes générations repoussent sur un grand tas de morts. Comment transmettre et que transmettre dans ces conditions ? Une femme conteste à Eugène Schneider son autorité : sa propre belle-mère ! Après O dix-neuvième ! (Prix Femina de l’essai 2001), Elvire de Brissac a décidé de ne pas s’endormir. Eugène Schneider est son grand-père.Un banquier jeune et riche, devenu peu à peu indifférent à tout, et peut-être à sa propre mort. La rencontre…
de deux dynasties des affaires. La succession ratée d'une des banques les plus prestigieuses du monde: Lazard. Cette histoire inouïe ne contient pas seulement les ingrédients d'un roman policier. C'est aussi celle d'un homme perdu, écrasé par un secret d'enfance. En jetant pour la première fois une lumière crue sur les coulisses de l'establishment des affaires, ses moeurs et ses secrets de famille, Airy Routier raconte ici la vie et la mort d'un homme haï par beaucoup, adoré par quelques-uns. Un homme véritablement extraordinaire. 2005.Last Canadian beer: the Moosehead story
By Harvey Sawler. 2008
From the moment in 1867 when family matriarch Susannah Oland began brewing beer in her Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, backyard, the…
Oland name has been synonymous with Maritime beer and successful family business. Reveals who the Olands are and what has made them successful, and how the Olands will continue to keep Moosehead as an independently owned family business. 2008.Lakeland: journeys into the soul of Canada
By Allan Casey. 2009
Blending writing on nature, travel, and science, Casey explores how the country's history and culture originates at the lakeshore. Describes…
a series of interconnected journeys by the author, punctuated by the seasons and the personalities he meets along the way including aboriginal fishery managers, fruit growers, boat captains, cottagers, and scientists. Some strong language. Winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2009.K.C: the biography of K.C. Irving
By Douglas How, Ralph Costello. 1993
In this biography of the New Brunswick business magnate, the authors portray a brilliant and determined individual who took great…
risks on his way to making himself rich and bringing wealth to New Brunswick. 1993.Kings of convergence: the fight for control of Canada's media
By Gordon Pitts. 2002
In Canada, five media corporations dominate everything from newspapers to cable to Internet access: Rogers, CanWest, Shaw Communications, BCE, and…
Quebecor. Here is a look at the men who have directed these corporations, as well as speculation on the future of these multimedia empires. Some strong language. 2002.Jack of all trades: memories of a busy life
By J. V Clyne. 1985
Clyne, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge for 17 years, left to become the chairman of MacMillan Bloedel, a lumber…
company. In this autobiography, he tells of his friends in high places and of his extensive travels through Brazil, China and Russia. c1985.Jack: straight from the gut
By Jack Welch, John A Byrne. 2001
Autobiography by the CEO of General Electric for almost twenty years describes his life and his moves up the company…
ladder. Explains his management system, which led to his company's phenomenal stock growth. Bestseller. 2001.Jack, a life with writers: the story of Jack McClelland
By James King. 1999
Though officially a biography of the head of publishing house McClelland & Stewart, this book is equally about business and…
the Canadian literary scene. Jack McClelland was credited with introducing many well-known authors to Canada and the rest of the world, including Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Irving Layton, Mordecai Richler and Margaret Laurence. The book reveals him to also be a fervent nationalist, devoted family man and perpetrator of often wild stunts that brought attention to his company's books. Some strong language.Irving vs. Irving: Canada's feuding billionaires and the stories they won't tell
By Jacques Poitras. 2014
They are Canada’s third wealthiest family, the fifth-largest private landowner in the U.S.A. They have a monopoly on New Brunswick’s…
English-language print media and billions of dollars in offshore accounts. They are the Irvings. And they have always placed a premium on discretion and family unity. They built their empire by remaining private. Here is the story of how these ambitious entrepreneurs came to dominate the economic and political affairs of Atlantic Canada. c2014.I was a teenage Katima-victim: a Canadian odyssey
By Will Ferguson. 1998
Will Ferguson's hilarious memoir of working his way across Canada with the volunteer corps Katimavik in the early 1980s. For…
a dollar a day and all the granola he can eat, Ferguson works on work sites ranging from soup kitchens to outdoor conservation trails and meets many interesting characters along the way. 1998.Into the blast furnace: the forging of a CEO's conscience
By Courtney Pratt, Larry Gaudet. 2008
When steel manufacturer Stelco Inc. went into bankruptcy protection in early 2004, there was a lot at stake during the…
company's restructuring: 6,000 jobs, 10,000 pensions; the egos and pocketbooks of lawyers, investors, union leaders, politicians and hedge fund managers, each with a special interest to flog and no interest in compromise. CEO Courtney Pratt, hired to clean up the mess, believed in keeping the company alive while ethically reconciling the competing interests - and trying to stay human in a bottom-line world. Some strong language. c2008.In the name of Gucci: a memoir
By Wendy Holden, Patrizia Gucci. 2016
Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the love child whose birth could have spelled ruination for her father, Aldo Gucci.…
It was 1963, and the halcyon days for the "must-have" brand of Hollywood and European royalty. Patricia's mother gave birth in secret in London before she was smuggled back to Vatican City and hidden from the fashion world, the media, and the rest of the Gucci family. Aldo couldn't afford a public scandal, but he could not resist his feelings for Patricia's mother, Bruna, the paramour he first met when she worked for him as a shopgirl in Rome. Patricia Gucci charts her parents' untold love story, relying on her own childhood memories as well as an archive of love letters and interviews with her mother. She interweaves her parents' story with that of her own relationship with her father--from a little girl who remained a secret for eighteen months and wasn't publicly acknowledged for her first decade, through her rise to become Gucci's ambassador and Aldo's protégé, to the moment when his three sons, who betrayed him in a famous palace coup, were disinherited and Patricia--once considered the shame of Gucci--was made sole universal heir. 2016. Uniform title: Gucci.In the blood: battles to succeed in Canada's family business
By Gordon Pitts. 2000
Dramatic stories of twelve business families and the trials and triumphs each has faced in trying to maintain their dynasty.…
Some of Canada's most prominent business families describe the successes and failures of their empires at the hands of family members. 2000.I hear she's a real bitch
By Jen Agg. 2017
Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg, the woman behind the popular The Black Hoof, Cocktail Bar, Rhum Corner, and Agrikol restaurants, is…
known for her frank, crystal-sharp and often hilarious observations and ideas on the restaurant industry and the world around her. Her first book is caustic yet intimate, and wryly observant; an unforgettable glimpse into the life of one of the most interesting, smart, trail-blazing voices of this moment. 2017.Boundless: tracing land and dream in a new Northwest Passage
By Kathleen Winter. 2014
In 2010, the author took a journey across the storied Northwest Passage. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along…
the passage, she bears witness to the new math of the melting North: where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that five nations stand poised to claim sovereignty of the land; and where the local Inuit population struggles to navigate the tension between taking part in the new global economy and defending their traditional way of life. 2014.Hey Canada!
By Vivien Bowers. 2012
Gran has decided that she is taking nine-year-old Alice and eight-year-old Cal on a road trip across Canada. Using poems,…
silly songs, tweets and blogs, the trio records the trip for everyone to share. Starting in St. John’s Newfoundland, where they have a “find-it” list that includes a moose and an iceberg and going all the way to the Pacific Ocean, the gang offers a fun way to learn about vast, varied, and surprising Canada. Grades 2-4. c2012.