Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Plates
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE: A Boyhood in Muskoka: Blood, Religion, Sentiment, and Community, 1877'91
- CHAPTER TWO: Onward, Ever Onward, Jack: Toronto and the Making of a Man, 1892'99
- CHAPTER THREE: Selling Wood Products and Settling Down, 1899'1907
- CHAPTER FOUR: Partner, Promoter, and Believer, 1907'1914
- CHAPTER FIVE: Bittersweet: St Lawrence Sugar and Regulation, 1912'63
- CHAPTER SIX: Keep the Home Fires Burning: Fundraising for the YMCA in Peace and for Canada in the Great War, 1909'19
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Developing and Financing Tramways and Electricity, 1890'1925CHAPTER EIGHT: The Rise and Fall of Holding Companies for Power and Paper, 1925'39
- CHAPTER NINE: Almost a Jack of All Trades, 1911'39
- CHAPTER TEN: Insecurities: McConnell's Investments, 1921'39
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Wider, Ever Wider Shall Thy Bounds Be Set: Social Life in Montreal, 1901'63
- CHAPTER TWELVE: For King and Empire, 1927'39
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Faith and Works: From Charity to Social Welfare and from Fundraising to Philanthropy, 1922'45
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: There'll Always Be an England: The Second World War, 1939'45CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Dilemma of Conservative Politics, 1911'63
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Press Barons, Publishers, and Editors: The Montreal Daily Star and Other Newspapers, 1925'53
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Grandescunt Aucta Labore: Building McGill University for the Future, 1920'63
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: We Give Thee but Thine Own: The Making of the McConnell Foundation, 1928'63
- CHAPTER NINTEEN: Keep Right on to the End of the Road, 1945'63
- APPENDIX ONE: Survey of J.W. McConnell's Investments, 1921'51APPENDIX TWO: A Glimpse of the Interconnectedness of McConnell's Circle
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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