Staying Connected : How MacDougall Family Traditions Built a Business Over 160 Years

The story of a business, its founding family, and their continued success. James Ferrabee and Michael Harrison reveal that even as decades have passed and economic trends have soared and crashed, MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier has been able to rely in good times and bad on the tradition and continued presence of the MacDougall family as well as the firm's core values: integrity, independence, and trust. Not only rich in detail about the history of the company, its founding family, and Canadian business, Staying Connected also offers a lively portrait of the city of Montreal from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Accessible and amusing, this is an inside account of a continual success story. Cover Contents Foreword: A History to Celebrate Acknowledgments MacDougall Family Genealogical Chart Illustrations ONE: Setting down Roots TWO: The Making of a Gentleman THREE: Making War and Making Money FOUR: Growth and Depression FIVE: Passing the Torch SIX: Enter Hartland B. SEVEN: A New Century EIGHT: Boom and Bust NINE: War and Peace TEN: The Genesis of 3 Macs ELEVEN: Turbulence and Opportunity TWELVE: Inflation and Volatility THIRTEEN: Irrational Exuberance and the Bubble Economy FOURTEEN: The New Millennium Notes Bibliography About the Authors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z With its origins dating back more than 160 years, MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier Inc has become one of the largest independent investment firms in the country. This title tells the story of this employee-owned firm, from its founding by one of the first stock brokers in Montreal, Donald Lorn MacDougall onwards