The 1918-20 influenza pandemic has been cited often as one of the few relatively recent events that is comparable to the current pandemic. Coming between the end of the Great War and the Roaring Twenties, the 1918-20 pandemic had a profound impact upon a generation of Canadians already scarred by the trauma of war. What...
Professor Brian Gettler, "Unmaking the Made Beaver: Money and Monopoly in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Fur Trade" Brian Gettler is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto. His several articles and book chapters focus on the political and socioeconomic history of colonialism in Quebec and Canada. Brian’s new book, Colonialism’s Currency: Money,...
The Canadian Business History Association would like to invite you for a special virtual event on September 27 from 2-3PM (EST). Our guest speaker is Ryan Manucha, the author of Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade. The Talk will be hosted by our President, Joe Martin. To sign up please click here...
