Changing Social Origins of the Canadian Industrial Elite, 1880-1910

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Changing Social Origins of the Canadian Industrial Elite, 1880-1910
Abstract
The collective social portraits of two groups of Canadian industrialists, 168 from the years 1880-1885 and 231 from the years 1905-1910. The author compares such factors as their ethnic and religious traditions, birthplaces, education, family backgrounds, career patterns, political and social activities, economic mobility, and regional differentials in analyzing the changing composition of these elites from the two eras.
Publication
The Business History Review
Volume
Vol. 47
Issue
no. 2
Pages
189-217
Date
Summer 1973
Language
en
Notes

Reprinted in: Glenn Porter and Robert Cuff, eds. Enterprise and National Development. Essays in Canadian Business and Economic History. Toronto, ON: A.M. Hakkert, 1973, pp. 51-79.

Citation
Acheson, T. W. “Changing Social Origins of the Canadian Industrial Elite, 1880-1910.” The Business History Review Vol. 47, no. 2 (Summer 1973): 189–217.
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