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Good Company
By Arthur M Blank. 2020
Featuring an introduction by President Jimmy CarterThe Home Depot cofounder and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLS's Atlanta…
United shares a vision and a roadmap for values-based business. Arthur M. Blank believes that for good companies, purpose and profit can-and should-go hand in hand. And he should know. Together with cofounder Bernie Marcus, Blank built The Home Depot from an idea and a dream to a $50 billion-dollar company, the leading home improvement retailer in the world. And even while opening a new store every 42 hours, they never lost sight of their commitment to care for their people and communities. In fact, in 2001, The Home Depot was voted America's most socially responsible company. Blank left The Home Depot that same year with a burning question: Could the values and culture that made that company great be replicated? Good Company takes readers inside the story of how he did just that-turning around a struggling NFL team, rebooting a near-bankrupt retail chain, building a brand-new stadium, revitalizing a blighted neighborhood, launching a startup soccer club, and more. "When good companies put the wellbeing of their customers, their associates, and their communities first, financial success will follow," Blank writes. "The entrepreneurs and business leaders of today and tomorrow have an extraordinary opportunity: to prove that through upholding values we can create value-for the company, for the customer, and for the community."The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
By Stephen Bown. 2009
A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous…
and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America.When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world.Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.El libro de la lactancia
By Dr José Paricio. 2020
El libro sobre la lactancia materna de uno de los referentes mundiales en su campo. El doctor José María Paricio…
comparte, en este libro, los conocimientos sobre aspectos científicos, técnicos, emocionales, sociales, culturales e históricos de la lactancia, plasmando tanto lo publicado en el ámbito de la ciencia y la medicina como lo aprendido en su experiencia profesional, de más de cuarenta años, de trato con madres y bebés. Con un estilo divulgativo y ameno, comprensible y útil para todos -desde madres y familias hasta profesionales--, el autor aborda cuestiones clave para comprender la riqueza de la lactancia: su apasionante historia, el funcionamiento del pecho materno, la composición y propiedades de la leche, las técnicas para amamantar aprendidas de las mujeres, el influjo de la misoginia en la cultura de la lactancia y en los modelos sanitarios de asistencia maternoinfantil, las dificultades y problemas médicos y sociolaborales, los falsos problemas, las malas soluciones y falsas creencias, los efectos de la tecnificación y la medicalización, los retos que se plantean al amamantar en una sociedad compleja y la rica cultura artística y narrativa generada en torno a la lactancia. Madres, profesionales sanitarios y especialistas en lactancia encontrarán una recopilación completa y actualizada del saber de la lactancia, basada en pruebas científicas y con referencias bibliográficas orientadas a profundizar más en el tema.Sonhando com a Rua da Esperança.
By Eder Holguin. 2020
Sonhando com a Rua da Esperança por Eder Holguin De viver nas ruas de Medelim, na Colômbia, para se tornar um empreendedor…
de sucesso em Nova York De viver nas ruas de Medelim, na Colômbia, para se tornar um empreendedor de sucesso em Nova York Hoje, Eder é um empreendedor de sucesso de Nova York na indústria de mídia on-line e CEO de uma empresa de marketing digital. No entanto, quando criança, em meados dos anos 80, ele fugi de uma vida doméstica assustadora e acabou vivendo por anos nas ruas de Medelim, na Colômbia. Era uma existência arriscada, no que foi descrito nessa época como o "lugar mais perigoso da terra". Onde governantes internacionais de drogas como Pablo Escobar governavam, onde você poderia ser baleado por olhar para o cara errado da maneira errada. Sonhando com a Rua da Esperança é a história de como ele passou de morar nas ruas para se tornar um empreendedor de sucesso. O livro está na tradição clássica da maioridade e prova que, embora a vida possa ser feia e brutal, até os mais desfavorecidos podem superar as probabilidades e encontrar a felicidade, a sua própria Rua da Esperança. A narrativa avança e soa com autenticidade; muitas vezes é triste, chocante, mas, no final das contas, edificante e motivacional.Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their…
children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on how reproduction meets production in surrogacy and how this reflects characteristics of India's larger labor system. Pande's interviews prove surrogates are more than victims of disciplinary power, and she examines the strategies they deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. While some women are coerced into the business by their families, others negotiate with clients and their clinics to gain access to technologies and networks otherwise closed to them. As surrogates, the women Pande meets get to know and make the most of advanced medical discoveries. They traverse borders and straddle relationships that test the boundaries of race, class, religion, and nationality. Those who focus on the inherent inequalities of India's surrogacy industry believe the practice should be either banned or strictly regulated. Pande instead advocates for a better understanding of this complex labor market, envisioning an international model of fair-trade surrogacy founded on openness and transparency in all business, medical, and emotional exchanges.The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's…
contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward Morris plots in absorbing detail Wall Street's transformation from a clubby enclave of financiers to a symbol of vast economic power. His book begins with J. Pierpont Morgan, who ruled the American banking system at the turn of the twentieth century, and ends with Sandy Weill, whose collapsing Citigroup required the largest taxpayer bailout in history. In between, Wall Streeters relates the triumphs and missteps of twelve other financial visionaries. From Charles Merrill, who founded Merrill Lynch and introduced the small investor to the American stock market; to Michael Milken, the so-called junk bond king; to Jack Bogle, whose index funds redefined the mutual fund business; to Myron Scholes, who laid the groundwork for derivative securities; and to Benjamin Graham, who wrote the book on securities analysis. Anyone interested in the modern institution of American finance will devour this history of some of its most important players.What We Didn't Expect: Personal Stories about Premature Birth
By Melody Schreiber. 2020
Every year, 400,000 families in the United States welcome premature babies ...Ten percent of babies born in the U.S. are…
preemies. But that one word, "preemie," encompasses a range of medical and cultural experiences. There are textbooks, medical-ish guidebooks, and the occasional memoir to turn to ... but no book that collects personal experiences from the many people who have parented, cared for, or been preemies themselves. Until now. In What We Didn't Expect, journalist Melody Schreiber brings together a chorus of acclaimed writers and thinkers to share their diverse stories of having or being premature babies. The stories here cover everything from life-changing tests of faith to navigating the red tape of healthcare bureuacracy; from overcoming unimaginable grief to surviving and thriving against all odds. The result is a moving, heartfelt book, and a crucial and informative resource for anyone who has, or is about to have, the experience of dealing with a premature birth.Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
By Wright Thompson. 2020
The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the…
world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply. As a journalist said of Pappy Van Winkle, "You could call it bourbon, or you could call it a $5,000 bottle of liquified, barrel-aged unobtanium." Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of his family's business, is now thought of as something like the Buddha of Bourbon - Booze Yoda, as Wright Thompson calls him. He is swarmed wherever he goes, and people stand in long lines to get him to sign their bottles of Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve, the whiskey he created to honor his grandfather, the founder of the family concern. A bottle of the 23-year-old Pappy starts at $3000 on the internet. As Julian is the first to say, things have gone completely nuts. Forty years ago, Julian would have laughed in astonishment if you'd told him what lay ahead. He'd just stepped in to try to save the business after his father had died, partly of heartbreak, having been forced to sell the old distillery in a brutal downturn in the market for whiskey. Julian's grandfather had presided over a magical kingdom of craft and connoisseurship, a genteel outfit whose family ethos generated good will throughout Kentucky and far beyond. There's always a certain amount of romance to the marketing of spirits, but Pappy's mission statement captured something real: "We make fine bourbon - at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always fine bourbon." But now the business had hit the wilderness years, and Julian could only hang on for dear life, stubbornly committed to preserving his namesake's legacy or going down with the ship. Then something like a miracle happened: it turned out that hundreds of very special barrels of whiskey from the Van Winkle family distillery had been saved by the multinational conglomerate that bought it. With no idea what they had, they offered to sell it to Julian, who scrambled to beg and borrow the funds. Now he could bottle a whiskey whose taste captured his family's legacy. The result would immediately be hailed as the greatest whiskey in the world - and would soon be the hardest to find. But now, those old barrels were used up, and Julian Van Winkle faced the challenge of his lifetime: how to preserve the taste of Pappy, the taste of his family's heritage, in a new age? The amazing Wright Thompson was invited to be his wingman as he set about to try. The result is an extraordinary testimony to the challenge of living up to your legacy and the rewards that come from knowing and honoring your people and your craft. Wright learned those lessons from Julian as they applied to the honest work of making a great bourbon whiskey in Kentucky, but he couldn't help applying them to his own craft, writing, and his upbringing in Mississippi, as he and his wife contemplated the birth of their first child. May we all be lucky enough to find some of ourselves, as Wright Thompson did, in Julian Van Winkle, and in Pappyland. A New York Times BestsellerAnyone Can Do It: My Story
By Duncan Bannatyne. 2007
At 30, Duncan Bannatyne had no money and was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story…
of someone who had made himself a millionaire, and decided to do the same. Five years later he had done it, and now he is worth £168 million. In this remarkable book, Bannatyne relives his colourful path to riches, from ice cream salesman to multi-millionaire, explaining how anyone could take the same route as he did - if they really want to. Hugely articulate, and with numerous fascinating and revealing stories to tell, this is an autobiography and a business book unlike any other - but then Bannatyne isn't like any other businessman, either.The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty
By Leonard A. Lauder. 2020
In his much-anticipated memoir, The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée…
Lauder Companies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business and life lessons he learned as well as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop business his mother founded in 1946 in the family kitchen into the beloved brand and ultimately into the iconic global prestige beauty company it is today.In its infancy in the 1940s and 50s, the company comprised a handful of products, sold under a single brand in just a few prestigious department stores across the United States. Today, The Estée Lauder Companies constitutes one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of prestige skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. It comprises more than 25 brands, whose products are sold in over 150 countries and territories. This growth and success was led by Leonard A. Lauder, Estée Lauder’s oldest son, who envisioned and effected this expansion during a remarkable 60-year tenure, including leading the company as CEO and Chairman.In this captivating personal account complete with great stories as only he can tell them, Mr. Lauder, now known as The Estée Lauder Companies’ “Chief Teaching Officer,” reflects on his childhood, growing up during the Great Depression, the vibrant decades of the post-World War II boom, and his work growing the company into the beauty powerhouse it is today. Mr. Lauder pays loving tribute to his mother Estée Lauder, its eponymous founder, and to the employees of the company, both past and present, while sharing inside stories about the company, including tales of cutthroat rivalry with Charles Revson of Revlon and others. The book offers keen insights on honing ambition, leveraging success, learning from mistakes, and growing an international company in an age of economic turbulence, uncertainty, and fierce competition.Bill Gates y la saga de Microsoft
By Daniel Ichbiah. 2020
Como primera biografía realizada sobre Bill Gates, este libro fue adaptado y publicado en varios países del mundo: EUA, China,…
Japón, India, Corea del Sur, Israel, Hungría... Por largo tiempo considerado un superdotado, un genio de la tecnología, Bill Gates se volvió el hombre más rico del planeta gracias a sus software. Durante los años 2000, se convirtió en filántropo, persuadido de haber salvado a millones de vidas, especialmente en África. Sin embargo, él es objeto de mil controversias. Este libro, actualizado en 2020, busca hacer su parte de las cosas y dar toda la información para poder comprender lo que anima a esta personalidad fuera de lo común. Este libro cuenta sobre la juventud del superdotado de nombre Bill Gates, quien se vuelve un campeón de la informática en la escuela, la creación del primer BASIC para micro-ordenadores en 1975, luego la ascención de Microsoft, que haría de Bill el hombre más rico del planeta. Seguimos a Gates a través de mil peripecias: - Cómo un joven de 21 años logra persuadir al gigante IBM para sostener negocios con él. - La travesía del desierto de Windows duró 7 años hasta la victoria inesperada. - Cómo Gates tuvo éxito en imponerse sobre la inmensa mayoría del planeta con una mezcla de genio y de maniobras monopolísticas discutibles. - El juicio iniciado por el gobierno americano por abuso de posición dominante... - Cómo Gates finalmente encontró en Google y Apple una competencia que llegarían a igualar y sobrepasar a Microsoft. . Su progresiva conversión a lo humanitario con prioridades que llegaron a sorprender a sus contemporáneos. Este libro fue escrito por Daniel Ichbiah cuando era periodista especializado en las nuevas tecnologías, lo que lo llevo a encontrarse regularmente con Bill Gates. Siendo periodista desde 1986, Ichbiah tuvo la oportunidad de conocer a Gates en una época en la que todLe 4 vite di Steve Jobs
By Daniel Ichbiah. 2020
Le 4 vite di Steve Jobs Daniel Ichbiah N°1 nelle hit-parade di vendite nell’agosto del 2011. Nuova edizione 2016 aggiornata…
«A trent’anni mi sono ritrovato sul lastrico. Licenziato brutalmente. La mia ragion d’essere non esisteva più. Ero a pezzi. Non me ne resi conto subito, ma la mia partenza forzata da Apple fu salutare…» Questa è la confessione di Steve Jobs fatta questa mattina di giugno del 2005 agli studenti dell’Università di Stanford. Riassumeva la maturazione che è lentamente avvenuta in lui. Cacciato da Apple come un sudicio nel 1985, Jobs ha effettuato un ritorno clamoroso dieci anni dopo producendo opere che hanno marcato la loro epoca come l’iPod, l’iPhone e l’iPad. Il CEO più ammirato del mondo, Steve Jobs ha spesso navigato controcorrente, spinto da una propria visione geniale e da una forza di convinzione fuori dal comune. Eppure, poteva anche sbagliarsi: è stato lui stesso ad aver quasi fatto fallire Apple nel 1984 dopo aver lanciato il Macintosh, imponendo delle scelte tecniche incoerenti! Le 4 vite di Steve Jobs racconta dell’infanzia turbolenta di Jobs, l’ascesa alla gloria dopo la fondazione di Apple, la sua disgrazia e il tentativo vano di vendetta seguito a un ritorno in apoteosi. Rivela anche mille sfaccettature inattese dell’artista fuori dalla norma che dirige Apple. * La sua ricerca di illuminazione in India * Il suo iniziale rifiuto di riconoscere la paternità a sua figlia Lisa * La sua storia con la cantante folk Joan Baez * La ricerca di sua madre che lo abbandonò alla nascita * Il tentativo di curare il suo cancro con una dieta vegetariana… A modo suo, Steve Jobs non ha smesso di voler cambiare il mondo, cambiare la vita… Un libro best-seller Pubblicato da Leduc Editions nell’aprile del 2011, Le 4 vite di Steve Jobs si è classificato n°1 di vendite nell�Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania
By Adrienne E. Strong. 2020
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of…
the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing maternal mortality rates, despite global development support. Growing administrative pressures to document good care serve to preclude good care in practice while placing frontline healthcare workers in moral and ethical peril. Maternal health emergencies expose the precarity of hospital social relations and accountability systems, which, together, continue to lead to the deaths of pregnant women.Never Stop: A Memoir
By Simba Sana. 2017
A memoir from the cofounder of the nation&’s largest black-owned chain of bookstores. &“A candid testimony of struggle and achievement.&”…
—Kirkus Reviews Never Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the cofounder and former leader of Karibu Books, a major indie-bookselling phenomenon and perhaps the most successful black-owned company in the history of the book industry. In this memoir, Sana reveals how his experience with Karibu jumpstarted his lifelong journey to better understanding himself, human nature, faith, and American culture—which ultimately helped him develop the powerful personal philosophy that drives his life today. Born Bernard Sutton in Washington, DC, Sana grew up in the cycle of poverty and violence that dominated inner-city life in the seventies and eighties. Sana&’s academic success got him into college, where his life increasingly embodied the contradictions that plagued his youth. Committed to self-improvement and self-discipline, he grew into a successful businessman while becoming an impassioned Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist. He lived the corporate life at Ernst & Young by day while leading radical consciousness-raising groups by night. Building Karibu became Sana&’s opportunity to bind the disparate elements of his life together. Ultimately, though, the paradoxes in his identity and his accumulated emotional wounds confounded his effort to overcome his business reversals, and everything Sana built—his marriage, family, and business—was lost in an incredibly brief period of time. Sana had to rebuild his life—and his identity—and set out to do so in a way that focused principally on the meaning and importance of love. &“Hands down one of the best explorations into the Black male psyche I&’ve ever read.&” —EssenceClinical Management of Pregnancies following ART
By Kanna Jayaprakasan, Lucy Kean. 2017
This book provides a detailed overview of the possible risks associated with ART pregnancies and their clinical management …
While most pregnancies following Assisted Reproduction Treatment ART will progress normally and without any complications to mother or baby some women who conceive after ART as well as their babies are at increased risk of pregnancy complications There are some schools of thoughts proposing pregnancies following IVF should be regarded as being high risk and requires special attention There are various reasons why ART pregnancies may be at higher risk - Female and male age factor increased chance of multiple pregnancies underlying cause of subfertility pelvic pathology uterine pathology endometrial dysfunction and potential increase in birth defects This is an essential read for obstetricians fertility specialists and Post-graduate traineesAlessandro Torlonia: The Pope’s Banker (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance)
By Daniela Felisini. 2017
This book provides a vivid biography of a towering Italian banker pioneer and entrepreneur It weaves the…
entrepreneurial ventures of Alessandro Torlonia 1800-1886 through the narratives of business and politics in the Nineteenth century the growth of European financial markets and the decline of Papal power during the Italian Risorgimento The discussion is founded in rigorous historical research using original sources such as the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum papers and other official documents the archives of the Torlonia family and of the Rothschild bank in Paris memoirs correspondences and newspapers Through this book readers learn that Alessandro Torlonia was a man of many faces who was one of the most complex and influential characters of Italian economic life in the nineteenth century Felisini also provides an expert critique of the financial history of the papacy an area of heightened interest given the notoriety of relations between the Holy See and its bankers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Focal topics such as the history of European elites and the history of European financial markets will have an interdisciplinary appeal for scholars and researchersA History of Burley Tobacco in East Tennessee & Western North Carolina
By Billy Yeargin, Christopher Bickers. 2015
Burley tobacco revolutionized the industry in east Tennessee and western North Carolina. What started from two farmers planting white burley…
in Greeneville ignited an agricultural revolution and significantly changed crops, production and quality. Burley transformed the tobacco industry with new cultivation techniques and a shift from dark and flue-cured tobacco. By the 1990s, burley tobacco production in the region had drastically declined, and it is a tradition that few local farmers still practice. Agricultural experts Billy Yeargin and Christopher Bickers take a nostalgic look at the historic rise of burley tobacco and its gradual decline.Ser madre a los 40 (y más allá): Lo que has de saber
By Marta Devesa, Alberto R. Melcón, Anna Veiga. 2018
Todo lo que hay que saber si te planteas ser madre a partir de los 40 a os…
de la mano del Hospital Universitario Dexeus entidad puntera en salud femenina y fertilidad P P Tengo 40 a os todav a puedo tener un beb P Cada vez es m s habitual que la maternidad se posponga El concepto de familia joven y hogare a se ha transformado a causa de las circunstancias sociales y laborales a las que las mujeres modernas se han visto abocadas en estos ltimos a os P A veces incluso se plantea la posibilidad de un nuevo hijo con una segunda pareja en la madurez En cualquier caso la biolog a juega en nuestra contra y no todas las mujeres son conscientes hasta qu punto descienden las posibilidades de tener un hijo en edades m s avanzadas Aqu encontrar s orientaci n y acompa amiento para cumplir tu sue o antes durante y despu s de tener a tu beb P En este libro te hablar n sobre las posibilidades de tener un hijo de forma natural y los riesgos m s comunes de las t cnicas m s modernas de reproducci n asistida adem s de los aspectos psicol gicos que condicionan a las mam s tard as Con este manual que acerca la vanguardia de la medicina reproductiva a la mujer actual podr s tomar decisiones informadas y con libertadLe retour à la bière...et au hockey: L'histoire d'Eric Molson
By Helen Antoniou. 2018
Pour la majorité des Canadiens, le nom de la famille Molson fait partie de l'essence même du Canada. Depuis 1786,…
année où John Molson fonda sa première brasserie à Montréal, il rime avec bière, hockey et philanthropie. Rares sont cependant ceux qui savent à quel point la famille est passée proche, ces dernières années, de perdre le contrôle de cette entreprise. Le retour à la bière...et au hockey dévoile des détails personnels de la vie et de l'œuvre d'Eric Molson, qui, non seulement, a sauvé l'entreprise familiale, mais lui a permis de connaître la prospérité comme brasserie de classe mondiale au vingt et unième siècle. Bénéficiant d'un accès sans précédent à la famille Molson, Helen Antoniou retrace l'évolution d’Eric Molson depuis sa position de jeune maître brasseur passionné par les aspects chimiques de l'industrie brassicole jusqu'au poste de président du conseil d'administration de Molson. De nature pacifique, il a été aux prises avec de gros ego, a dû composer avec des situations de salles de conseil complexes et a même dû affronter un cousin déstabilisant qui s'efforçait de le tasser sur le côté. Se fondant sur une recherche poussée, Helen Antoniou relate dans le détail comment Eric, un homme introverti, a vaincu son aversion pour les conflits et a transformé un conglomérat en déroute pour le ramener à son activité principale, soit la fabrication de la bière, et finir par en faire un des plus grands brasseurs au monde. S'il a aujourd'hui passé le flambeau à ses fils, membres de la septième génération, sa vision résolue prévaut encore. Récit passionnant du combat d'un homme à la barre d'un géant de l'univers brassicole, Le retour à la bière...et au hockey explique en quoi les principes directeurs d'Eric Molson ont influencé l'avenir de Molson, aussi bien l'entreprise que la famille.A Gentleman of Substance
By Richard Feltoe. 2004
A Gentleman of Substance covers the remarkable life of John Redpath. Born to humble circumstances in Scotland in 1796, he…
emigrated to Canada in 1816 to become a stonemason in Montreal. By 1818 he had his own building and contracting firm and was working on the Lachine Canal as well as much construction and restoration work on buildings in Montreal. His work on the Rideau Canal, as contracted by Colonel John By, established his business reputation, while his leadership within the Presbyterian Church stabilized his position in the community. His involvement in the political and military life of Montreal is traced from before the 1837 Rebellion period through to his involvement with the Annexation Movement, making him an obvious candidate for the Montreal City Council. The author traces John Redpath’s upwardly mobile social status, his friendship with Peter McGill, and his acceptance into the elite society of Montreal, earning him a place within the coveted “Square Mile.” Despite a rigorous business schedule and extensive family responsibilities (he fathered 17 children), he was a frequent benevolent contributor to community needs, as well as participating on numerous Boards and Committees and contributing to the shaping of the urban design of Montreal. Attention is given to his expansive home, Terrace Bank, the subsequent subdivision of his estate and the early residential expansion of Montreal, and to his founding of the Canada Sugar Refinery and its growth.