Macmillan Company

When the dust settled after the restructuring of the Canadian forest industry at the beginning of the 21st century and many of the major players such as MacMillan Bloedel, Doman Industries and Slocan Forest Products vanished into memory, one feisty player remained standing, stronger than ever: Terminal Forest Products. Remarkably, Terminal was privately owned by one man, a Sikh immigrant and former labourer named Asa Singh Johal.

This rare study by C.A. Phillips, together with T.F. McManus and R.W. Nelson, appeared in 1937 as an Austrian-style analysis of the stock market crash and the great depression that followed. It explores the many theories tossed about at the time, and concludes that the theory "here developed may be called a 'central banking' explanation of the depression. The depth and duration of the depression are held to be the ineluctable consequences of the preceding boom.

This is a college and high-school history textbook. It covers growth of the nation to the middle of the fourteenth century, rural life and organization, town life and organization, medieval trade and commerce, the black death and the peasants' rebellion, the breaking up of the medieval system, the expansion of England, the period of the industrial revolution, the extension of government control, the extension of voluntary association.