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FAMOUS CANADIAN ENTREPRENEURS

Success Stories - Industry Canada (type success stories in Industry Canada's site search)

The Canadian Encyclopedia Online
DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ONLINE

WCI eBooks Collection
Infotrac / Gale eBooks password required
or select from below given titles and then go to WITHIN THIS PUBLICATION

Encyclopedias Page

Campbell Harvey's Finance Glossary
Financial Dictionary 

For names of Canadian Corporations try:
Canadian Company Profiles
Performance Plus - Small Business Profiles

general Internet (keywords: ranking top corporations OR companies canada OR canadian)

PROFITguide.com Top 100 Women Business Owners

 

CANADIAN INVENTORS (may not have patented their ideas)
Elliot, J.W - Rotary Snowplow
Shuster, Joe - Superman
Sieggel, Jerome - Superman

see also: Canadian Inventors Page

GENERAL INTERNET

you may search Google now:

 

alternately use the Advanced Search option

MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER & JOURNAL DATABASES

  • Select preferred package of databases:
    from our YRDSB list of packages or directly from
     
    - InfoTrac by Thomson / Gale (Home access requires password)
      
    - Ebscohost's Canadian Points of View
     - or -
                from
    Vaughan Public Libraries - Online Databases (VPL membership required)

  • Select appropriate database(s) within preferred package (most are Infotrac databases purchased by Knowledge Ontario)

  • Choose "Advanced Search" tab

  • Ensure Fulltext selected

  • type keyword(s):

    • combine keywords needed with AND operator

    • search most important keywords in Subject field (or broaden search to default fields if necessary)

    • use truncation as required

    • cluster similar concepts if necessary to optimize on line limitations

    • check assigned subject headings of highly relevant articles for alternate keywords

    • no one perfect strategy -- play around for the one that works best for given search

Infotrac articles may be emailed directly to user

- type person or topic under Subject field

EXAMPLES OF SUCCESSFUL CANADIAN BUSINESS PEOPLE
Abbott, Scott - Trivial Pursuit
Bombardier, J. Armand - Snowmobile / Bombardier Corporation
Boyle, Joseph Whiteside
Bregman Family - Second Cup
Bronfman, Edgar, Jr. - Seagrams
Bronfman, Samuel - Seagrams
Campeau, Robert
Drabinsky, Garth Howard - Live Entertainment
Eaton, Timothy - Eaton
Evan, Matthew - Electric Light bulb
Ferguson, Grahame - IMAX
Gelinas, Gratien
Hamilton, George
Haney, Chris - Trivial Pursuit
Hings, Donald - Walkie Talkie
Horton, Tim - Tim Hortons
Howe, Arthur Thomas
Irving, Kenneth Colin
  Jackman, Henry Newton Powell
Joyce, Ron - Tim Hortons
Kaiser, Edgar Fosburgh Jr.
Kerr, Robert - IMAX
Killam, Izaak Walton
Kroitor, Roman - IMAX
Lantos, Robert - Producer
Lemieux-Lopez, Jacqueline
Leslie Brothers (John) - Rotary Snowplow
Lovitt, William Dodge
Lundstrum, Linda - Fashion Designer
MacCarthy, Albert H.
Mackenzie, Sir William
MacMillan, Harvey Reginald
Magee, Christine - Sleep Country Canada
McCain, Harrison - McCain Foods
McCain, Wallace - McCain Foods
McLaughlin, John - Ginger Ale
Meehan, Denise - Licks
Mimran, Joe - Club Monaco
Mirvish, Edwin - Honest Eds / Mirvish Productions
Molson, John - Molson Breweries
  Naismith, James - Basketball
Pattison, James Allen
Percival, Lloyd
Reichmann, Steven - Olympia & York
Reichmann, Paul - Olympia & York
Reisman, Heather - Chapters / Indigo
Ryan, Thomas - Five Pin Bowling
Seagram, Joseph Emm - Seagram's
Sicard, Arthur - Snowblower
Sniderman, Sam - Sam the Record Man
Stronach, Frank - Magna International
Sundback, Gideon - Zipper
Weston Family - Weston Foods / Holt Renfrew
Woodward, Henry - Electric Light bulb

ALSO CHECK:

 

GROUP WORK SUGGESTION
Use a wiki such as Microsoft Office Live for group work from various remote locations

Create and share your work online

  • Edit anytime, from anywhere
  • Pick who can access your documents
  • Share changes in real time
  • Files are stored securely online
  • It's MS Office so files can be resaved to open locally
          on MS Office (without going through the Web)
  • It's FREE!
  • CITING REFERENCES
    Literacy How To's Page
    Easybib.com

    Technology How To's ...


     

    alternately use GOOGLE ADVANCED SEARCH     

    last updated 11/13/09

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