Business

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 …

Bill White (1905–2001) was an itinerant ranch hand and trapper, a member of the RCMP and an Arctic traveller, but he was best known for his work as the head of the Vancouver Labour Council and president of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union, the largest local union in Canada in his time. It was a position he held for eleven straight years …

A Mind at Sea is an intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the world's great maritime countries. Between 1856 and 1877, Henry Fry was the Lloyd's agent for the St. Lawrence River, east of Montreal. The harbour coves around his home in Quebec were crammed with immense rafts of cut wood, the river's shoreline sprawled with yards w …

David Singh tells the inspiring story of his rise from abject poverty in the Third World to become the leader of Fortune Financial, once Canada's largest financial planning company. It all came crashing down, but Singh's drive and passion are now at the helm of his own bank, Destiny Investment Bank, and several new, dynamic businesses. Singh shares …

They came west looking for new opportunities and they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Entrepreneurs such as James Lougheed, Max Bell, Eric Harvie and A.E. Cross all had a few characteristics in common: they were exceptionally ambitious and took enormous risks. And they went from rags to riches.

From the pioneering days of the province's oil industry at Turner Valley to the evolution of the massive oilsands extraction system at the Athabasca tarsands, business reporter Tim LeRiche writes an entertaining look back at Alberta's oil exploration legacy.