Merchants
A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Historically, a merchant is anyone who is involved in business or trade. Merchants have operated for as long as industry, commerce, and trade have existed. In 16th-century Europe, two different terms for merchants emerged: meerseniers referred to local traders (such as bakers and grocers) and koopman (Dutch: koopman) referred to merchants who operated on a global stage, importing and exporting goods over vast distances and offering added-value services such as credit and finance. The status of the merchant has varied …
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UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English
Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in …
on the West African coast for this purpose. Merchants set up trading posts in coastal areas, but at …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 23 April 2024 English
At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre …
shudders.”12 Pirates in armoured sampans raided merchants on the islands to Hong Kong’s west. Yet order …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 12 April 2024 English
"The Honourable John Norquay is a magnificent book. Friesen meticulously documents Norquay's many accomplishments, larger-than-life character, and charisma. He paints a picture of a negotiator and orator who ably uses …
the children of fur trade officers and wealthy merchants who could afford to enrol their children in an … military officers and senior clergy, prosperous merchants and settlers, junior clergy and teachers, HBC …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 April 2024 English
Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet’suwet’en and hydrocarbon pipeline development, showing how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims and how the Wet'suwet'en resist. …
between small groups of men who were promoters, merchants or fur traders.”31 It thus represented a newly … traders to 20,000 prospectors, speculators, and merchants. To assert British authority, James Douglas was …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 26 March 2024 English
The story of Cape Breton presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Contributors capture the vital elements of a region on the rural …
groceries.23 These men were among the most prominent merchants operating from Sydney Harbour. They arrived in … islands and Highlands of Scotland to Cape Breton.24 Merchants such28 Don Nerbas as Archibald and Archbold constituted … as a ship chandler. In Arichat, where Jersey merchants had commanded the fishery since Cape Breton’s … island’s traditional Atlantic orientation. However, merchants in Cape Breton as well as Halifax lacked the state … revealed the limited ability of Nova Scotia merchants and politicians to shape their own trade opportunities …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 7 March 2024 English
Headquartered understanding of the socio-economic and technological in Waterloo, Canada, CIGI has received support impacts of digitalization and improve the quality and from the Government of Canada, the Government relevance …
that “regulation should be introduced to require merchants to accept cash as a form of payment” (BoC 2023 …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 27 February 2024 English
Tony Vicar is wrestling against the ordinary patterns his life has fallen into, until dark secrets and a dangerous woman from the past threaten to upend it all.After the devastating …
a glow of pink tinging the high plumes. The Merchants’ Association of Tyee Lagoon — a tiny, miserly …
TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity · 19 February 2024 English
The aims of TEEBAgriFood are bold and ambitious: to contribute a framework approach for better understanding and managing the impacts and externalities of agriculture and food value chains, and to …
popularising PGS certification among distributors, merchants, and consumers at premium rates. To promote authenticity …
CSPI: Centre for Science in the Public Interest · 12 February 2024 English
A Covered Establishment must provide three pieces of information on menus themselves (calories, the Succinct Statement, and the Statement of Availability),77 and make the required additional nutrition information available upon …
same menus in stores and on those restaurants’/merchants’ websites, and all online menus would communicate … found that all three major TPPs allow restaurants/merchants to post and update their own menus, and one TPP … provide to restaurants/ merchants related to the tools and portals restaurants/merchants can use to post and … guide that Uber Eats provides to restaurants/merchants for posting and maintaining their menus using … from DoorDash’s Learning Center for merchants explaining how merchants can add menu items and descriptions …
CSPI: Centre for Science in the Public Interest · 12 February 2024 English
A Covered Establishment must provide three pieces of information on menus themselves (calories, the Succinct Statement, and the Statement of Availability),77 and make the required additional nutrition information available upon …
same menus in stores and on those restaurants’/merchants’ websites, and all online menus would communicate … found that all three major TPPs allow restaurants/merchants to post and update their own menus, and one TPP … provide to restaurants/ merchants related to the tools and portals restaurants/merchants can use to post and … guide that Uber Eats provides to restaurants/merchants for posting and maintaining their menus using … from DoorDash’s Learning Center for merchants explaining how merchants can add menu items and descriptions …
