Laurence Mussio examines how federal and provincial public policy tried to keep pace with the diffusion of telecommunications, consumer demand, and a rising tide of technological innovation. Telecommunications regulation struggled to maintain a balance between producer and consumer in an increasingly complex field and policy makers were compelled to defend the national interest in international telecommunications arrangements or by making far-reaching decisions about transcontinental microwave systems and satellites. By the late 1960s national policy makers had embraced the arrival of the...

Au cours des deux derniers siecles, la Banque de Montreal s est trouvee au c ur du developpement economique et financier du Canada. Publie a l occasion du bicentenaire de la premiere banque canadienne, Un destin plus grand que soi puise dans l iconographie de cette institution financiere pour raconter son histoire de ses origines jusqu a nos jours. Retracant le passe de la Banque de Montreal grace a des images d objets, de ses dirigeants, de documents essentiels et de publicites aujourd hui tombees dans l oubli, Laurence B. Mussio illustre son emergence progressive. En devoilant petit a petit...

A richly illustrated history of the making of Canada s first bank revealed through carefully chosen images, themes, and objects."