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The handover : how bigwigs and bureaucrats transferred Canada's Best publisher and the best part of our literary heritage to a foreign multinational  Cover Image Book Book

The handover : how bigwigs and bureaucrats transferred Canada's Best publisher and the best part of our literary heritage to a foreign multinational

Dewar, Elaine (author.).

Summary: The author reveals how our premiere national publisher, McClelland and Stewart, was eventually sold to Random House, a division of German media giant Bertelsmann, for a dollar. Drawing on interviews done with those who engineered the deal, and on documents never before revealed, Dewar tells the story of how a savvy businessman, an accountant, a university president, and three major law firms "danced through the raindrops" to evade a thirty-year-old public policy created to defend Canadian national sovereignty. Part investigation, part memoir by a journalist whose career was shaped by the Investment Canada Act-the federal rules that protect Canada's $40 billion cultural industry-Dewar explores both how the Act was enacted and how it was taken down, piece by piece, deal by deal.

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  • ISBN: 9781771961110
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    381 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: McClelland and Stewart Limited.
Canada.
Publishers and publishing -- Canada
Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Canada
Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Law and legislation -- Canada
Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation -- Canada
Book industries and trade -- Canada
Press law -- Canada

Available copies

  • 12 of 12 copies available at Sitka. (Show)
  • 7 of 7 copies available at BC Public Libraries.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Castlegar Public Library 070.509713 DEW (Text) 35146002054930 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Smithers Public Library ANF 070.5 DEW (Text) 35101011005076 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Tumbler Ridge Public Library ANF 070.5 DEWAR (Text) TRL22083 Entertaining Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Gibsons Public Library 070.5 DEW (Text) 30886001039383 Adult Nonfiction Volume hold Available -
McBride 070.5 Dew (Text) 35191000294625 Adult Non fiction Volume hold Available -
Trail and District Public Library Main Branch 070.509 DEW (Text) 35110001081633 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Williams Lake Branch 070.509713 DEW (Text) 33923005856889 Non-fiction Volume hold Available -

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