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Title Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms : Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870-1940
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (419 pages)
Series Heritage
Heritage
Contents Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Beginnings -- 2 Selling Stuff -- 3 The Development of the Exchanges -- 4 Blue Skies -- 5 War Clouds -- 6 Highbinders and Re-Loaders -- 7 Fighting Fraud -- 8 Crash -- 9 Into the Depths -- 10 The Ordeal of F.H. Deacon -- 11 Reform -- 12 Challenges -- 13 Revival Stalled -- 14 Uncertainty -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX: Volume of Securities Traded on Canadian Stock Exchanges, 1901-1936 -- NOTES -- PHOTO CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms€ describes the evolution of the securities market in Canada, from the onset of trading, through the boom of the 1920s and the depression of the 1930s, to the outbreak of the Second World War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-375) and index
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Subject Stock exchanges -- Canada -- History
Securities industry -- Canada -- History
Securities -- Canada -- History
Securities
Securities industry
Stock exchanges
Wertpapierhandel
Geschichte 1870-1940.
Canada
Kanada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442656345
1442656344