J.W. McConnell: Financier, Philanthropist, Patriot 9780773574687
J.W. McConnell (1877-1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful bus
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Contents
Plates
Preface and Acknowledgments
CHAPTER ONE: A Boyhood in Muskoka: Blood, Religion, Sentiment, and Community, 1877–91
CHAPTER TWO: Onward, Ever Onward, Jack: Toronto and the Making of a Man, 1892–99
CHAPTER THREE: Selling Wood Products and Settling Down, 1899–1907
CHAPTER FOUR: Partner, Promoter, and Believer, 1907–1914
CHAPTER FIVE: Bittersweet: St Lawrence Sugar and Regulation, 1912–63
CHAPTER SIX: Keep the Home Fires Burning: Fundraising for the YMCA in Peace and for Canada in the Great War, 1909–19
CHAPTER SEVEN: Developing and Financing Tramways and Electricity, 1890–1925
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Rise and Fall of Holding Companies for Power and Paper, 1925–39
CHAPTER NINE: Almost a Jack of All Trades, 1911–39
CHAPTER TEN: Insecurities: McConnell's Investments, 1921–39
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Wider, Ever Wider Shall Thy Bounds Be Set: Social Life in Montreal, 1901–63
CHAPTER TWELVE: For King and Empire, 1927–39
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Faith and Works: From Charity to Social Welfare and from Fundraising to Philanthropy, 1922–45
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: There'll Always Be an England: The Second World War, 1939–45
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Dilemma of Conservative Politics, 1911–63
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Press Barons, Publishers, and Editors: The Montreal Daily Star and Other Newspapers, 1925–53
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Grandescunt Aucta Labore: Building McGill University for the Future, 1920–63
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: We Give Thee but Thine Own: The Making of the McConnell Foundation, 1928–63
CHAPTER NINTEEN: Keep Right on to the End of the Road, 1945–63
APPENDIX ONE: Survey of J.W. McConnell’s Investments, 1921–51
APPENDIX TWO: A Glimpse of the Interconnectedness of McConnell’s Circle
Notes
Bibliography
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