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McNally Robinson
McNally Robinson Booksellers is a family-operated chain of Canadian independent bookstores founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1981. It is managed by new owners Chris Hall and Lori Baker, formerly managed by Holly and Paul McNally. As of 2019 it had three branches, two in Winnipeg and one in Saskatoon, as well as a sister-store McNally Jackson in New York City. Overview ''McNally Robinson'' was founded by Holly McNally in 1981 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with her partner Ron Robinson, who quit the book business a year later to pursue a career with CBC Radio. Robinson's name has remained attached to the enterprise because at the time he left, McNally didn't have the money to replace the store's signage. Beginning with just one small corner bookstore, Holly and her husband Paul gradually built ''McNally Robinson Booksellers'' into one of the largest independent bookstores in Canada, spreading to Saskatoon and (formerly) Calgary. The stores host readings and book launches by authors from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Business
A family business is a commercial organization in which decision-making is influenced by multiple generations of a family, related by blood or marriage or adoption, who has both the ability to influence the vision of the business and the willingness to use this ability to pursue distinctive goals. They are closely identified with the firm through leadership or ownership. Owner-manager entrepreneurial firms are not considered to be family businesses because they lack the multi-generational dimension and family influence that create the unique dynamics and relationships of family businesses. Overview Family business is the oldest and most common model of economic organization. The vast majority of businesses throughout the world—from corner shops to multinational publicly listed organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees—can be considered family businesses. Based on research of the Forbes 400 richest Americans, 44% of the Forbes 400 member fortunes were derived by be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forks, Winnipeg
The Forks (french: La Fourche) is a historic site, meeting place, and green space in downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and the Assiniboine River. The Forks was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1974 due to its status as a cultural landscape that had borne witness to six thousand years of human activity. The site's grounds are open year-round. History 6,000 years ago Numerous archaeological digs have shown that early Aboriginal groups arrived at The Forks site around 6,000 years ago. The digs conducted between 1989 and 1994 discovered several Aboriginal camps. Artifacts related to the bison hunt and fishing were unearthed. Evidence showed that Nakoda (Assiniboins), Cree, Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) and Sioux (Dakota) visited the site. Seasonal migration routes from northern forests to southern plains featured the Forks area as a rest stop, and the location became a key transcontinental trade link. The Assiniboine River has followed it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McNally Robinson Book For Young People Award
The McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award is associated with the Manitoba Book Awards and was first sponsored by McNally Robinson Booksellers in 1997 and since then has been given in two categories: Young Adult and Children. It is presented to the two Manitoba writers whose books for young people are judged the best written. The two winning authors each receive a cash award. Winners Pre 1997 winners *1995 — Margaret Buffie, ''The Dark Garden'' *1996 — Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon, ''Tiktala'' Young Adult category *1997 — Diana Wieler, ''RanVan: Magic Nation'' *1998 — Diana Wieler, ''Drive'' *1999 — Martha Brooks, ''Being with Henry'' *2000 — Linda Holeman, ''Raspberry House Blues'' *2001 — Eva Wiseman, ''My Canary Yellow Star'' *2002 — Linda Holeman, ''Search of the Moon King’s Daughter'' *2003 — Duncan Thornton, ''The Star-Glass'' *2004 — Margaret Buffie, ''The Finder'' *2005 — Diane Juttner Perreault, ''Breath of the Dragon'' *2006 — Larry Verstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McNally Robinson Book Of The Year Award
The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award is associated with the Manitoba Book Awards and was established in 1988. It is presented to the Manitoba writer whose adult English language book is judged the best written. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by McNally Robinson Booksellers. Winners {, class="wikitable sortable" , +McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award winners !Year !Author !Title , - , 1988 , , ''Recent Mistakes'' , - , 1989 , , ''The Prowler'' , - , 1990 , , ''Agnes in the sky'' , - , 1991 , , ''Fox'' , - , 1992 , , ''The Chrome Suite'' , - , 1993 , , ''The Stone Diaries'' , - , 1994 , , ''Blasphemer's Wheel'' , - , 1995 , , ''Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak'' , - , 1996 , , ''A Year of Lesser'' , - , 1997 , , ''Latent Heat'' , - , 1998 , , ''A Boy of Good Breeding'' , - , 1999 , , ''Cowboys and Indians'' , - , 2000 , , ''Swing Low: A Life'' , - , 2001 , , ''When Alice Lay Down With Peter'' , - , 2002 , , ''Houseboat Chroni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McNally Jackson
McNally Jackson Books is an independent bookstore based in New York, New York owned and operated by Sarah McNally, a former editor at Basic Books and the child of Holly and Paul McNally, the founders of the Canadian McNally Robinson Booksellers chain. History In 2004, Sarah McNally opened the store as a branch of McNally Robinson, a Canadian bookstore chain founded by her parents. In August 2008, the New York store in Nolita split from the parent chain and was renamed McNally Jackson Books. The current name references Ms. McNally and her then-husband Christopher Jackson, a senior editor at Spiegel & Grau. By October 2011, the store had invested in an Espresso Book Machine to print both major publisher titles and approximately 700 self-published works per month. The Espresso machine remained in operation until 2017. In 2012, McNally Robinson was sold from its founders, Ms. McNally's parents, to Chris Hall and Lori Baker, longtime employees of the chain. McNally Jackson remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espresso Book Machine
The Espresso Book Machine (EBM) is a print on demand (POD) machine created by On Demand Books. It prints, collates, covers, and binds a single book in a few minutes. Introduced in 2007, EBM is small enough to fit in a retail bookstore or small library room, and as such it is targeted at retail and library markets. The EBM can potentially allow readers to obtain any book title, even books that are out of print. The machine takes a PDF file for input and prints, binds, and trims the reader’s selection as a paperback book. History Jason Epstein gave a series of lectures in 1999 about his experiences in publishing. Epstein mentioned in his speech that a future was possible in which customers would be able to print an out-of-stock title on the spot, if a book-printing machine could be made that would fit in a store. He founded 3BillionBooks with Michael Smolens, an entrepreneur from Long Island living in Russia, and Thor Sigvaldason, a consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Print On Demand
Print on demand (POD) is a printing technology and business process in which book copies (or other documents, packaging or materials) are not printed until the company receives an order, allowing prints of single or small quantities. While other industries established the build to order business model, "print on demand" could only develop after the beginning of digital printing, because it was not economical to print single copies using traditional printing technology such as letterpress and offset printing. Many traditional small presses have replaced their traditional printing equipment with POD equipment or contract their printing to POD service providers. Many academic publishers, including university presses, use POD services to maintain large backlists (lists of older publications); some use POD for all of their publications. Larger publishers may use POD in special circumstances, such as reprinting older, out-of-print titles, or for test marketing. Predecessors Before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shops At Don Mills
The Shops at Don Mills (corporately known as CF Shops at Don Mills) is a lifestyle centre-type shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue East in Toronto. There are 72 retail stores with a total floor space of 47,550 square metres (or 511,824 square feet). Character Storefronts face a network of private internal streets, and the centre layout is centred on a square which includes interpretive historical plaques and commissioned art by Douglas Coupland. The layout is similar to a regular neighbourhood retail strip. Anchors include Salomon Toronto, McEwans Gourmet Market, Anthropologie, Joey's west coast restaurant and other shops and restaurants. Parking along the internal streets is limited but a multi-level parkade is located on site. History The centre is located on the site of the demolished Don Mills Centre shopping mall. Increased competition from other shopping malls and the closure of main anchor tenant T. Eaton Co. meant de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polo Park
Polo Park (corporately styled as CF Polo Park) is a shopping centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is situated on the former Polo Park Racetrack near the junction of Portage Avenue and St. James Street. Its grounds also includes a Scotiabank Theatre (formerly SilverCity). The mall is currently anchored by Husdon's Bay, Forever 21, Urban Planet, Sport Chek, and EQ3. It is the largest mall of the 8 malls in the city, and is the 15th largest shopping centre in Canada, ranking between Guildford Town Centre and Laurier Québec. For census purposes, Polo Park is also the name given to the neighbourhood including and surrounding the shopping centre. History The Polo Park Mall opened on Thursday, 20 August 1959, and became one of the first enclosed shopping malls in Canada when a roof was added in 1963, the other being the Park Royal Shopping Centre in BC. The district was once the sports hub of Winnipeg, with the Winnipeg Arena, Canad Inns Stadium, and Winnipeg Velodrome all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the United States, U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota. Saskatchewan and Alberta are the only landlocked provinces of Canada. In 2022, Saskatchewan's population was estimated at 1,205,119. Nearly 10% of Saskatchewan’s total area of is fresh water, mostly rivers, reservoirs and List of lakes in Saskatchewan, lakes. Residents primarily live in the southern prairie half of the province, while the northern half is mostly forested and sparsely populated. Roughly half live in the province's largest city Saskatoon or the provincial capital Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina. Other notable cities include Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current, North Battleford, Melfort, Saskatchewan, Melfort, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Park Mall
Grant Park Shopping Centre (formerly Grant Park Plaza) is a 70-shop, nearly 400,000-square-foot shopping centre in the Grant Park area of southwest Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Located near the mall are Grant Park High School and the Pan-Am Pool. Development The land around what would later become Grant Park Shopping Centre was first developed with the introduction of the Harte Subdivision for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1908. From the 1920s to late 1950s, the Grant Park area was the location of a Métis community known as Rooster Town. The difficulty of procuring affordable housing close to other members of the Métis community led families to build their own housing on this land. Throughout the 1950s, residents were under increasing pressure from developers to relocate. In 1959, the remaining residents were evicted and their homes were burnt or torn down. Rooster Town has been described by Lawrie Barkwell, senior historian at the Louis Riel Institute, as a "working-cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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