TABLES
MAPS AND FIGURES
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 Max Aitken and the Nature of Finance Capitalism during the
Laurier Boom
2 Circuitous Road to Halifax, 1879-1904
3 Caribbean Adventurer
4 Building the Royal Securities Corporation
5 The Montreal Engineering Company
6 The Takeover and Transformation of Montreal Trust
7 Hubris and the Young Financier
8 Manufacturing the Canada Cement Company
9 Merger Promoter Extraordinaire
10 Combines, Canada Cement, and the Reciprocity Election
11 Conclusion: From Profits to Politics
APPENDIX: The First Canadian Merger Wave in International
Perspective
NOTES
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX
Gregory P. Marchildon is Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design and Professor at the Institute of Health, Policy and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
'It is a good story, and, while the outline was already clear,
Marchildon tells it with a mass of detail and appropriate verve.
Current investment bankers, the honest ones, will turn green with
envy, and the dishonest ones may pick up a few tips.'
*Times Literary Supplement*
'This well-written book should inform and entertain even the most
econophobic reader.'
*Canadian Book Review Annual*
'Here is the $10,000 bribe, the misleading statements, the
double-crosses, the million-dollar-flip and the continuing
hypocrisy. Yet here also is the genius that transformed initial
imitation into ultimate innovation and attracted some of the best
financial talent of that generation as colleagues and
employees.'
*The Beaver*
'The main lines of the story are familiar. Many specific points are
not, however, nor has anyone previously analysed the full range of
Aitken's business activities in this extraordinary decade
[1900-10]. Even those who know the story best will therefore learn
much from this authoritative study.'
*Business History*
'This is an extremely useful and uncommonly interesting book.'
*H-Canada*
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