An accessible business history that considers the dynamic interplay between economic climate and the personal determination of business people in the late 1800s. The book provides insight into how entrepreneurs, retailers, manufacturers, bankers, farmers, and ranchers pioneered a booming business city. It discusses the people and activities that helped to create the conditions in which Calgary emerged as a city and the Bow Valley an important agricultural centre. Historical figures such as Isaac G Baker, Agnes K Bedingfeld, and James A Lougheed in the context of business in Calgary. The author also talks about the obstacles that faced business and civic leaders: how to promote economic growth of the city; how to create demand for goods and services; how to finance transportation improvements; how to assimilate substantial social and political change.
An accessible business history that considers the dynamic interplay between economic climate and the personal determination of business people in the late 1800s. The book provides insight into how entrepreneurs, retailers, manufacturers, bankers, farmers, and ranchers pioneered a booming business city. It discusses the people and activities that helped to create the conditions in which Calgary emerged as a city and the Bow Valley an important agricultural centre. Historical figures such as Isaac G Baker, Agnes K Bedingfeld, and James A Lougheed in the context of business in Calgary. The author also talks about the obstacles that faced business and civic leaders: how to promote economic growth of the city; how to create demand for goods and services; how to finance transportation improvements; how to assimilate substantial social and political change.
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Henry C. Klassen taught history for many years at the University of Calgary. His academic pursuits centred around the study of Canadian business and financial history. His book, A Business History of Alberta, was shortlisted for the Scholarly Book of the Year at the 2000 Alberta Book Awards.
Eye on the Future is a Who's Who of Calgary's (and the nearby rural
hinterland's) pioneer business class . . . With his superb command
of the region's history and archival sources, Klassen has produced
a picture rich in intricate detail and nuance. No doubt, Eye on the
Future will remain the classic reference on the first three decades
of Calgary's business history A.A. Den Otter, The Canadian
Historical Review
The great strengths of Klassen's approach are its inclusive view,
the detailed face he is able to put on business, and his ability to
see the opportunities and challenges of businesses from within the
enterprise. Klassen is particularly effective in bringing
previously overlooked businesspeople, like women, into his field of
vision. H.V. Nelles, Business History Review
Klassen is a superb miniaturist. He deftly sketches the origins,
the strengths and the foibles of scores of entrepreneurs who
established the foundations of business activity in the Bow Valley
during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Each cameo
portrait glows with authenticity because it is based on meticulous
archival research. Simon M. Evans, Western Historical Quarterly
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