I Know That Name!: The People Behind Canada's Best Known Brand Names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller

by Randy Ray and Mark Kearney

Book Overview

Every day Canadians buy groceries at Sobey's, develop film at Black's, or grab a coffee at Tim Horton's without giving it a second thought. These brands are in our lives and in the public eye. We're... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550024078
• ISBN13: 9781550024074
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

for trivia nuts!

Rebeccasreads recommends I KNOW THAT NAME! for every trivia buff, throne & den/game room, giving glimpses of how companies started, flourished, were gobbled up by bigger ones, or fended off takeovers to continue toward modernday prosperity. I KNOW THAT NAME! has lots of photos to illustrate this collection of histories about ordinary people, some Canadian born, others immigrants, with a few just passing through: all, however, made their mark on a nation & its culture -- from shaving cream to publishing houses, cough drops to body builders, distilleries & breweries to moving companies, film makers to musical instruments, toys to washing machines, hats to construction, glasses to razors, ladies' wear to fake meat products, advertising to flour, business forms to farm equipment, & on it goes.