The CBHA is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for archivists, historians, managers, management scholars, and the public to further the historical study of Canadian business and how that history relates to other countries. We believe our business heritage is an integral part of Canadian history and that this heritage cannot be preserved without a strong partnership between academia and the business community.
In the years to come
The CBHA has a number of objectives that we will achieve in the next few years through organization growth and our various initiatives.
We’re a dynamic group of individuals who are passionate about what we do and dedicated to delivering the best results for our clients.
Chair of the Board
Professor at the Rotman School and the Department of History and the L.R. Wilson/R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History. A Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor Anastakis’s work addresses the intersection of business, the state and politics, particularly in the post-1945 period in Canada, and especially the development of the Canadian automotive industry. He has published nine books and edited collections, has appeared and been quoted in the media extensively, including CTV, CBC, TVO, BNN and numerous newspapers and magazines, and his research has been discussed in the National Post and the New York Times.
Associate Professor of History at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, located in Treaty 4. Her research explores how hierarchies of social power have emerged over long periods. Much of her work, including the book "Retail Nation (2011)", explores the social dynamics of consumer capitalism. She is currently completing a book on consumer culture within the Canadian women’s movement. Other research areas include the history of global commodities, with a specific focus on the food trade. Her website is www.donicabelisle.com.
Director of Cannabis Education at mīhī, a Canadian cannabis retailer located in Ontario. She’s the co-founder of several cannabis companies, including The Green Tent, a women-led organization dedicated to achieving gender parity in leadership positions and on corporate boards in the Canadian cannabis industry. She currently sits on the NICHE Canada advisory board, and recently left a position managing the MBA Capstone Course at Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where she received her MBA in 2014. In addition to her business-building work, she also conducts research, consults, and writes on the topic of women’s health and cannabis.
President
Former Director of the Canadian Business History Program, Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Executive in Residence at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is the author of "Relentless Change, A Case Book for the Study of Canadian Business History" and “From Wall Street to Bay Street: The Origins and Evolution of American and Canadian Finance” which has been translated into Mandarin and a Documentary based on the book has been shown on 85% of the PBS Network. Joe is also Historian of the Albany Club of Toronto and was a founding Board Member of Canada’s History Society and is now President Emeritus.
Director of Equity Sales at National Bank Financial in Toronto since 2019, prior to which he was Vice President Equity Sales since 2017. Before joining National Bank, Jeremy was with: CIBC Asset Management as an Analyst covering Canadian Integrates, Global Oilfield Services, U.S. Large Cap E&P, and Global Refining; Peters & Co. as an Analyst covering the Oil Industry; and CIBC World Markets as an Associate. A graduate of Queen’s University, Jeremy is President of the Queen’s University Alumni Association and chair of the QUAA Board since 2018.
Sanjeev Sharma, strategy and transformation leader with experience in delivering vision to value for innovative business solutions is a passionate business historian. He sees business history as an avenue to learn from the past for building the future and is eager to bring the power of learnings from history to inspire and innovate high-performing and scalable business entrepreneurial culture in Canada. His work with Joe Martin on Nortel and Bata have been published as teaching case studies. He is currently leading the strategy function for the Canadian Banking data and analytics at TD and brings over 15 years of experience across management consulting and global firms like Oracle to build a best in class financial and treasury management at CBHA.
A leading expert on interprovincial trade in Canada, Ryan Manucha is frequently called upon to advise governments and agencies, and his work has appeared in prominent Canadian peer-reviewed legal journals, national newspapers and think-tank publications. Most recently, his book Booze, Cigarettes and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade (McGill-Queen's University Press) won the Donner Prize for best in Canadian public policy and writing, and was a finalist for the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.
Associate Professor and Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. He has published a variety of articles on economic elites and capitalist development, and is the author of "Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947 (University of Toronto Press, 2013)". His current book project, supported by SSHRC, examines the rise of the Cape Breton coal industry during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Situating Cape Breton’s Sydney coalfield within its wider colonial context as part of a British settler society, the project links the Scottish diaspora and business networks to the making and shaping of Canada’s emerging industrial order, including the development of distinctive social classes and cultures.
Government Records Archivist at Library and Archives Canada and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Guelph. His research concerns the business of sport, questions about digital humanities, historical database linkage techniques, and anthropometric history. He covers several areas that relate to North American business, economic, cultural and sport history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of the book ""Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 (Syracuse University Press, 2015)".
Retired from Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in 2012 after more than 30 years of service. From 1989 to 2012 he was LAC’s business archivist. He has published and presented papers worldwide on a variety of topics including acquisition theory, archival appraisal, and Canadian business and financial history. He has served on the editorial boards of peer reviewed journals in Canada and overseas. His current research focuses on the business history of Canadian Great Lakes shipping.
Portfolio Manager on the Mackenzie Global Equity Team and a member of the CBHA/ACHA Board of Directors. She is primarily responsible for covering Asian equities. Mona joined Mackenzie in 2016. Previously, she spent four years as an Investment Analyst at the leading value-based investment firm Burgundy Asset Management covering emerging markets and Asian equities. Mona is also a guest lecturer at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Mona has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She is also a CFA charterholder.
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