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TRADE AND COMMERCE
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Apothecaries' Hall (S), PE
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Site of prominent 19th-century pharmacy
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Athabasca Pass (S), AB
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Major fur trade transportation route
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Aubert de La Chesnaye, Charles (P), QC
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Leading businessman in fur trade, commerce, real estate, shipping
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Bank of Montréal (S), QC
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Queen Anne Revival style in sandstone, built in 1894
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Bank of Upper Canada Building (S), ON
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Home of important 19th-century bank
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Beaulieu II, François (P)
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Founding father of North-West Territories Métis, pre-eminent Métis leader
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Belcourt, Reverend Georges-Antoine (P), PE
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Roman Catholic missionary at Red River (1831-58), founded Farmer's Bank of Rustico, Prince Edward Island
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Bennett, Charles Fox (P), NF
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Noted Newfoundland entrepreneur and political leader
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Birkbeck Building (S), ON
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Edwardian Baroque financial institution
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Caisse Populaire (Mouvement Desjardins) (E), QC
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Cooperative banks began in Lévis, Quebec in 1901
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Chase,William Henry (P), NS
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Businessman and philanthropist, supported Nova Scotia universities
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Collins, Enos (P), NS
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Privateer and entrepreneur, important role in development of Halifax
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Cox, George (P), ON
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Financier, senator (1896), philanthropist, leading Toronto businessman
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Cumberland House (S), SK
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1774 Hudson's Bay Company post established by Samuel Hearne
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Cunard, Sir Samuel (P), NS
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Founded a commercial empire of shipping, banking, lumber, land and coal
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Cuvillier, Augustin (P), QC
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Speaker of the Assembly of Lower Canada (1841-44), founded Bank of Montréal
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David Thompson on the Columbia River (E), BC
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Role in establishing inland trading posts built between 1807 and 1812
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Desjardins, Alphonse (P), QC
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Founder of the Caisse Populaire Movement in Quebec
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Eaton, Timothy (P), ON
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Famous department store established 1869, began mail order in 1884
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Ermatinger House (S), ON
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Early northwest Ontario stone fur trade residence, 1814-23
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Exchange District (S), MB
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Centre of the grain and wholesale trade, finance and manufacturing, 1880-1900 and 1900-13
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Farmers' Bank of Rustico (S), PE
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One of first cooperative banks in Canada, 1864
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Fidler, Peter (P), SK
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Hudson's Bay Company trader on the Saskatchewan and Churchill rivers
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First Export of Coal (E), NB
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Coal was shipped from Grand Lake to Boston before 1650
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Former Bank of British North America (S), NF
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Fine example of Italianate style, circa 1850
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Former Union Bank Building/Annex (S), MB
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First skyscraper in western Canada, speaks to key note of finance in expansion of the West, 1903-04
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Fort à la Corne (S), SK
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Site of several fur trade posts, 1753-1932
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Fort Alexandria (S), BC
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Site of North West Company post, 1821-1860s
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Fort Assiniboine (S), AB
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Site of 1823 Hudson's Bay Company post
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Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton (S), AB
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Site of rival trading posts, 1795-1801
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Fort Carlton (S), SK
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Site of Hudson's Bay Company post, 1795-1885
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Fort Charnisay (S), NB
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Site of French fort, 1645
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Fort Chipewyan (S), AB
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Site of major trading posts, 1800-present
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Fort Churchill (S), MB
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Built by Samuel Hearne in 1783, reached by rail in 1929
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Fort Dauphin (S), MB
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One of La Vérendrye's posts, built in 1741
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Fort Douglas (S), MB
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Site of 1812 headquarters of Red River Settlement
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Fort Dunvegan (S), AB
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Site of 1805 North West Company post
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Fort Edmonton III (S), AB
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Site of 1831 Hudson's Bay Company post
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Fort Espérance (S), SK
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Remains of two North West Company fur trade posts
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Fort Hope (S), BC
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Site of Hudson's Bay Company post, 1848-60
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Fort Kamloops (S), BC
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Site of North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company posts
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Fort La Reine (S), MB
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Most important of La Vérendrye's western posts
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Fort La Tour (S), NB
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Site of French fort, 1631
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Fort Langley (S), BC
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Early 19th-century Hudson's Bay Company post
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Fort Maurepas (S), MB
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Established by La Vérendrye, 1739-49
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Fort McLeod (S), BC
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Site of North West Company post, built in 1805
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