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CHAPTER ELEVEN No Banker’s Dominion: Montreal Bankers and the Financial Fate of Newfoundland

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Volume one: A Dominion of CApitAl, 1817–1945
  4. A NOTE TO READERS xi
  5. FOREWORD xiii
  6. ACKNOWLEDgMENTS xix
  7. TABLES AND FIGURES xxiii
  8. gENERAL INTRODUCTION xxv
  9. PART ONE In the Beginning, 1760–1817
  10. 1 An Unchartered Territory 1
  11. PART TWO Forging Canadian Finance, 1817–1870
  12. Introduction 19
  13. CHAPTER TWO Canada’s Reputational Capitalists 27
  14. CHAPTER THREE Style, Strategy, Stability 42
  15. CHAPTER FOUR Legislator, Lord, Banker 56
  16. CHAPTER FIVE Risk, Return, Reward 81
  17. PART THREE Fortune’s Faithful Disciples, 1870–1918
  18. Introduction 104
  19. CHAPTER SIX Players and Performance: Strategy and Organization 113
  20. CHAPTER SEVEN Bankers and Nation Builders 143
  21. CHAPTER EIGHT Capital Unshackled: Bankers, Mergers, Trade, and the Expansionist Spirit 164
  22. PART FOUR A Changeful Fortune, 1918–1945
  23. Introduction 184
  24. CHAPTER NINE The Boreal Winds 191
  25. CHAPTER TEN The Montreal Banker’s Paradox 221
  26. CHAPTER ELEVEN No Banker’s Dominion: Montreal Bankers and the Financial Fate of Newfoundland 241
  27. CHAPTER TWELVE Winners, Losers, and Bankers: The Making of the Bank of Canada 253
  28. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Building Canada’s Financial Arsenal 287
  29. NOTES 303
  30. WHOM FORTUNE FAVOURS 341
  31. CONTENTS 347
  32. TABLES AND FIGURES 351
  33. PREFACE 353
  34. PART FIVE A Magnificent Facade, 1946–1974
  35. Introduction 356
  36. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Les Trente Glorieuses? 1946–1973 360
  37. CHAPTER FIFTEEN Remaking the Bank of Montreal in an Era of Transformation, 1965–1974 402
  38. CHAPTER SIXTEEN The [Digital] Conversion of St James [Street] 420
  39. PART SIX The Road of Return, 1974–1989
  40. Introduction 448
  41. CHAPTERS EVENTEEN The Saviour General and the Two-Front War, 1975–1989 452
  42. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Day the bmo Universe Changed 506
  43. CHAPTER NINETEEN The Far Journey: The Bank in the World 526
  44. PART SEVEN A Time to Every Purpose, 1990–2017
  45. Introduction 562
  46. CHAPTER TWENTY The Great Regeneration, 1990–1997 566
  47. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Trajectories, 1998–2017
  48. Section 1: The Icarus Trap 585
  49. Section 2: The Phoenix Protocol 600
  50. EpILOgUE One Past, Many Possible Futures
  51. AFTERWORD FOR ACADEMIC READERS 625
  52. NOTES 629
  53. BIBLI OGRAPHY 663
  54. INDEX 691
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