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Create AccountMacMillan Bloedel Limited, with head offices in Vancouver, is Canada's largest forest-products company. It began in 1909 as the Powell River Paper Company Ltd, and it was reorganized as the Powell River Co in 1911.
Bankruptcy is a legal process, governed by the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, that provides financial relief for debtors and a protection for creditors.
Loto-Canada Inc, established May 1976 to be responsible for continued operation of the Olympic lottery. It was to turn over 82.
Machinery and Equipment Industry includes establishments that produce pumps and compressors, rolling-mill and metalworking equipment, forestry equipment, mining equipment, farm machinery, construction equipment and service industries equipment.
Lottery a centuries-old concept, is an arrangement for distributing prizes by lot, chance or mixed chance and skill.
Hudson's Bay Company found it necessary to devise a unit of value that would accommodate Aboriginal people's bartering to European bookkeeping methods
Like most industrial activities, mining involves risk. However, contemporary mining in Canada is much safer than it once was.
Money consists of anything that is generally accepted for the settlement of debts or purchase of goods or services. The evolution of money as a system for regulating society’s economic transactions represented a significant advancement over earlier forms of exchange based on barter, in which goods and services are exchanged for other goods or services. Canadian money has its roots in the Indigenous wampum belts of the East, the early currencies of European settlers and the influence of the United States.
The company was established in 1921 by Donald I. McLeod, Ewart Young and J. Gordon Weir with an initial capital of $40 000, which grew to $300 million.
Maclean Hunter Limited was a diversified communications company, known primarily for publishing the news magazine Maclean's. As the largest publisher of national MAGAZINES and periodicals in Canada, its list included Flare, L'ACTUALITÉ and English and French editions of CHATELAINE.
The gold standard is a monetary system in which the value of the currency unit (the Canadian dollar, for example) is defined in relation to the value of gold.
Moffat Communications Limited, controlled by Randall L. Moffat, owns CKY-TV, the CTV-network affiliate in Winnipeg which extends service to 97% of Manitoba's population. Through CKY Moffat owns 14% of CTV.
Mercantile Bank of Canada had head offices in Montréal. The Mercantile Bank operated a general banking business through 13 branches and one representative office.
Municipal finance is concerned with the revenues and expenditures of municipalities. Revenues are secured from local taxes (see TAXATION) and other local revenues and from provincial and federal grants.
The Molson Coors Brewing Company (MCBC) is a partly Canadian-owned enterprise and one of the world's largest beer makers.
The Concept of MegaprojectsThe whole concept of "megaprojects" was thrown into question when the long list of megaprojects proposed in the 1970s was wiped out by the recession and the decline in energy prices during the 1980s. Megaprojects can only thrive in an atmosphere of certainty.
Canning, NS, incorporated as a village in 1968, population (2011c), 798 (2006c). The Village of Canning is located 100 km northwest of Halifax.
The standard of living is a measure of economic welfare. It generally refers to the availability of scarce goods and services, usually measured by per capita income or per capita consumption, calculated in constant dollars, to satisfy wants rather than needs.
