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Author: Rod McQueen
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the family that controlled a department store chain that dominated in Canada for over a century. Begins with the founder Timothy in 1869, and traces the generations down to the shocking 1997 admission that the firm was insolvent, and the surviving heirs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Bruce Allen Kopytek
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-10-21
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1625846959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore the broad, fascinating history of the Eaton's department store empire. Exhaustively researched and thoughtfully written by a prominent department store historian. Canada's largest and most well-known department store, Eaton's was an icon of Canadian culture. From its founding in 1869 to its famed catalogue and network of large stores spreading coast to coast, Eaton's offered something for everyone, in grand style. Relive the days when this remarkable store was a fixture in every Canadian province and served its customers with a distinctive personality that has all but vanished from the retail landscape.
Author: Steve Penfold
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 144262924X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada. This volume focuses on the Eaton's sponsored parades that occurred in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg as well as the shorter-lived parades in Calgary and Edmonton. There is also a discussion of small town alternatives, organized by civic groups, service clubs, and chambers of commerce. By focusing on the pioneering effort of the Eaton's department store Steve Penfold argues that the parade ultimately represented a paradoxical form of cultural power: it allowed Eaton's to press its image onto public life while also reflecting the decline of the once powerful retailer. Penfold's analysis reveals the "corporate fantastic" - a visual and narrative mix of meticulous organization and whimsical style- and its influence on parade traditions. Steve Penfold's considerable analytical skills have produced a work that is simultaneously a cultural history, history of business and commentary on consumerism. Professional historians and the general public alike would be remiss if this wasn't on their holiday wish list.
Author: Russ Gourluck
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781894283489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEaton's of Winnipeg was never just a store or just a building. It was an icon for generations of Winnipeggers. It was a place where many had their first job; a place where people met (by the statue or under the clock); a place where first toys, or first dresses, or first grown—up fedoras were bought; and of course, a place where people shopped. But it was the people, both the customers and employees, who made the store what it was.
Author: Donica Belisle
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-02-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0774819499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe experience of walking down a store aisle � replete with displays, salespeople, and infinite choice � is so common we often forget retail has a short history. Retail Nation traces Canada's transformation into a modern consumer society back to an era � 1890 to 1940 � when department stores such as Eaton's ruled the shopping scene and promised to strengthen the nation. Department stores emerge as agents of modern nationalism, but the nation they helped to define � white, consumerist, middle-class � was more limited, and contested, than nostalgic portraits of the early department store suggest.
Author: T. EATON. CO
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033946480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rod McQueen
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2012-10-20
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1459707966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHungarian-born Frank Hasenfratz fled his native land in 1956 after the revolution to free his nation from Soviet domination failed. He eventually settled in Guelph, Ontario, where he founded Linamar, now the second-largest maker of auto parts in Canada. This is Frank's story as well as that of the company he created.
Author: Kelly Mathews
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-06-08
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1626199345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir John Craig Eaton had Eaton Hall built in 1937 on a 700-acre plot in King City, Ontario. The history of this landmark will explore the famous local men who built the Canadian castle, the local stones that made it, and the local people who lived there and have felt its influence.
Author: William Scoular
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780773722163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chris Eaton
Publisher: Book Thug Tradebooks
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781927040645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiction. CHRIS EATON, A BIOGRAPHY is a novel that arises from the idea that we have all been driven, at some point, to Google ourselves. And if you did, what did you find? That there are people out there who seem to have something in common with you? Dates, places, interests? How coincidental are these connections? And what are the factors that define a human life? We are the sum of our stories: Anecdotal constructs. We remember moments in our pasts the way we remember television episodes. In pieces. And we realize that our own memories are no more valid in the construction of our identities than stories we've heard from others. CHRIS EATON, A BIOGRAPHY constructs a life by using, as building blocks, the lives of dozens of other people who share nothing more than a name, identities that blur into each other with the idea that, in the end, we all live the same life, deal with the same hopes and fears, experience the same joys and tragedies. Only the specifics are different. From birth to death and everything in between, the narratives we share bring us closer to a truth about what it means to be alive. To be you.
