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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.Back to the red road: a story of survival, redemption and love
By Florence Kaefer, Edward Gamblin. 2014
In 1954, at the age of nineteen, Florence Kaefer accepted a job as a teacher at Norway House. In 1967,…
Norway House Indian Residential School of Manitoba closed its doors after a questionable past. Many years later, Florence unexpectedly reconnected with one of her Norway House students, Edward Gamblin. He told her of the abuse he had suffered at the residential school and how the government had erased his cultural identity. This is the story of their personal reconciliation. c2014.Environmentalists from our First Nations (A First Nations book for young readers #5)
By Vincent Schilling. 2011
Ten biographies of First Nations/Native activists who advocate not only for the environment but for Native rights. Their stories are…
full of highs and lows, triumphs and setbacks. Environmental trailblazers, these men and women are role models for children everywhere. Grades 4-7. 2011. (First Nations Series for Young Readers)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.Joseph Brant (The Canadians)
By Auldham Roy Petrie. 1978
Joseph Brant followed his father as an Iroquois chief, and, like his father, swore loyalty to the British in North…
America and was received by British royalty in London. Petrie chronicles the life of Brant, from his childhood and youth, to his first battles as an Iroquois warrior and his crucial aid to the British during the American War of Independence. Grades 5-8. 1978.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.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.Inside out: the autobiography of a Native Canadian
By James Tyman. 1989
James Tyman is a young Native man who grew up with racism, turned to crime and drugs, and repeatedly ended…
up in jail. At age 24, while serving a 2 year prison sentence, James wrote this record of his own journey to self-discovery. Strong language. 1989.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'll sing 'til the day I die: conversations with Tyendinaga elders
By Beth Brant. 1995
A hundred years of Native North American history emerges from the lives of fifteen Elders of Tyendinaga, in conversation with…
Mohawk writer Beth Brant. School teachers, domestic workers, miners, civil servants and factory workers people these accounts with the grist and joy of everyday lives spanning the 20th century. c1995.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.Fatty legs: a true story
By Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. 2010
Taunted and humiliated by Raven, the unkind nun in charge of the young Inuit girls at her residential school, Margaret…
is willing to endure almost anything as long as she can learn to read. The unpleasant chores don’t daunt her, but the teasing of other students and the unfair punishments do. When she is the only girl forced to wear ugly red stockings, however, Margaret has enough, and fights back. Followed by “A stranger at home” (DC41414). Grades 3-6. 2010.