A Concise History of Business in Canada

A Concise History of Business in Canada. By Graham D. Taylor and Peter A. Baskerville Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvii + 491 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $28.95, ISBN 0-19540978-7.

Reviewed by Christopher Armstrong

Peter Baskerville and Graham Taylor have produced a valuable work synthesizing much recent writing on the business and economic history of Canada in a form intended for senior undergraduates. Though the book is called a History of Business, the approach taken is broader that the title might imply, and indeed it invites comparison with Kenneth Norrie and Douglas Owram's History of the Canadian Economy, which appeared in 1991. Both volumes …