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History of cooperatives in Canada. The cooperative movement in Canada is a social and economic movement that started in the middle of the 19th century and continues until today. During the Great Migration of Canada many British people as well as citizens from other European countries immigrated to Canada with new ideas of cooperative enterprises.
1998. October 26, 1998 In Victoria, British Columbia, Telus was incorporated under the British Columbia Company Act as BCT.TELUS Communications Inc (BCT)—a "Telecommunications company with a " [n]ational network of long distance, Internet and wireless networks and telephone equipment." Edmonton, Alberta was listed as its secondary address [ 7 ...
Economic history of Canada. Company histories by country. History of organizations based in Canada.
Capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production. This is generally taken to imply the moral permissibility of profit, free trade, capital accumulation, voluntary exchange, wage labor, etc. Its emergence, evolution, and spread are the subjects of extensive research and debate.
Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is Canada Post Corporation in English and Société canadienne des postes in French. During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were "Mail" (English) and "Poste" (French), rendered as "Poste Mail" in Québec ...
Industrialization came much later. The thesis explains Canadian economic development as a lateral, east–west conception of trade. Innis argued that Canada developed as it did because of the nature of its staple commodities: raw materials, such as fish, fur, lumber, agricultural products and minerals.
1760-1761. 10 March 1760 – 12 October 1761. The Halifax Treaties are signed between the Wabanaki Confederacy and the British Crown to end warring between the Indigenous peoples of the Maritimes and the British. One by one, various First Nations signed treaties to pledge "peace and friendship" with the British.
Crown corporations in Canada (French: Société de la Couronne) [1] are government organizations with a mixture of commercial and public-policy objectives. [2] [3] They are directly and wholly owned by the Crown (i.e. the government of Canada or a province). [2] Crown corporations represent a specific form of state-owned enterprise.