List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Meeting Place
The Blackfoot
The Coming of Montana Traders
Hamilton and Healy?s Trading Post
Calgary?s Changing Business System
I.G. Baker and Co: American Enterprises in the Wagon-Row Era
I.G. Baker and Co, and its Network of Stores
Isaac Gilbert Baker and the Foundation of a Trading Company
Expansion in Montana
Trading in the Canadian Prairie Region
Establishing a General Store in Calgary
Survival and Expansion
Responding to the Needs of the Mounted People
Achieving Growth through Ties to Native People
Changing Natural Environment
Prosperity in the Mid- and Late 1980s
I.G. Baker and Co?s Relationship with its Main Competitor, Power and Bro.
Ongoing Commitment to Banking
Expanding Merchandise Sales
New Management at the Calgary Store
Sources of Beef
I.G. Baker and Co and Capitalism
Hudson?s Bay Company: British Empire in the Wagon-Road Era
Network of Trading Posts and Stores in Alberta
John Bunn and the Establishment of a Store in Calgary
Conflict between Richard Hardisty and Robert Hamilton
James A. Grahme and Calgary Business
Angus Fraser: New Manager
Charles J. Brydges and New Business Opportunities
An Uncertain Future
Charles J. Brydges? Visit to Calgary
Rails and Marketing
Impact of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Overcoming Barriers to Inland Transportation
Richard Hardisty Responds to the Canadian Public
I.G. Baker and Co and the Canadian Pacific
Canadian Pacific and the Calgary Townsite
Business in Calgary After the Arrival of the Canadian Pacific
Coping with the Depression in the Mid-1880s
Business Opportunities during the Saskatchewan Rebellion
Peacetime Business
The Emergence of the Town of Calgary
Natural Advantages of Calgary
The Grid
George Murdoch: Harness and Saddle Maker
Isaac S. Freeze: A General Merchant
Specialization in Commerce
Rankin and Allen: Dry Goods Merchants
The Movement for Incorperation
Calgary?s Early Government
Hamlets, Villages, and Settlers in the Bow Valley
Creating Banking Services
Informal Private Credit Networks
Private Banks
Lafferty and Smith
LaJeune, Smith and Co
Lafferty and Moore: Women in the Banking Business
Chartered Banks
Imperial Bank of Canada
Bank of Montreal
Responding to the Calgary Government?s Financial Needs
Financial Environment
Building the Ranching Community
Canadian Pacific Stockyards
Land and the Rise of Big Ranch Companies in the Bow Valley
American Roots
Sever Winter of 1886-1887
Livestock Raising and the Natural Environment
Ranching in the Bow Valley: The Conrads, I.G. Baker, and the Harris Brothers
Cochrane Ranche Company
Small Ranchers
Osborne E. Brown: Elbow River Rancher
Arthur G. Wolly-Dod: Pine Creek Rancher
John Quirk and his Meidum-Sized Ranch
Improving the Canadian Pacific Stockyards
Maintatining the Family Farm
The Banister Family Farm at Davisburg
Farm Protest Movement in the Bow Valley
Emergence of the Calgary Market
Shattered and Fulfilled Dreams
Robert Findlay: Homesteader at High River
The Andrews Family Farm at Davisburg
James F. McKevitt: Midnapore Farmer
Farming at Davisburg: The David Suitor Family
Informal Economic Networks
Agricultural Societies and Fairs
Voluntary Associations in the Bow Valley
Farmers and the Natural Environment
Financial Problems
Kenneth Cameron: Okotoks Farmer
Politics and Progress
From Town to City
A Promising Place
Calgary: Southern Alberta?s Railway Hub
Making Funds Available to Settlers
The Great Fire
Postfire Calgary?s Business
Canadian Pacific Station
Business and Hotels
Sandstone City
Turning Business Ideas into Business Organizations
George Alexander and the Alexander Block
William Roper Hull: Meat Packer and Rancher
Peter A. Prince and the Eau Claire and Bow River Lumber Co.
Hutchings and Riley: Harness and Saddle Makers
Environmental Problems
Alexander Lucas and Alberta?s First City
Wesley F. Orr and a Young and Ambitious City
Department Stores and Mass Distribution
Recovering from the Great Fire
Mass Distribution in Fort Benton
Calgary?s First Department Store: I.G. Baker and Co
Credit and Cash Sales
Wholesale Division
Retail Division
Competition
Sale of I.G. Baker and Co?s Stores
A New Era in Department Store Business: Hudson?s Bay Company
Grand Opening
New Sandstone Department Store
Labour Relations
Rewarding James Thompson
Edmond Taylor: New Manager
Expansion
Women in Business
Gender and Workforce
Entrepreneurship
Janet Dewar and Dressmaking
Mary MacLeod: Dressmaker
Margaret Leishman: Milliner
Annie A Milder and the Millenary Trade
Frances Marie Carr: Boardinghousekeeper
Agnes Carroll and the Holy Cross Hospital
Annie and Jean Mollison and Braemar Lodge
Financing the Canadian Dream
The Canadian Dream
James A. Lougheed: Lawyer, Real Estate Entrepreneur, and Senator
Christina Kinnisten: Calgary Confectioner
Luey Dofoo and the Restaurant Business
Samuel and Helen Shaw: Midnapore Entrepreneurs
Sandy Watson: Pine Creek Farmer
Meopham Garder: Ranching in the Bragg Creek Area
James C. Linton and Books
James S. Mackie: Gunsmith and Bookseller
Service Businesses
Conclusion: Themes of an Era 1870-1900
New Technologies in Transportation and Communication
New Goods for Consumers
Business by Economic Sector
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
