Massey Dialogues – The Masseys, the Masses & their Monies: Explaining the Wealth of the Massey Family
Join us November 3rd from 4:00-5:00pm ET for a presentation by Senior Fellow Professor Dimitry Anastakis who will delve into the history of the Massey Family and their money: from farm implements, corporate growth, wealth and philanthropy to their legacy as our very institution. A conversation and Q+A session with Senior Fellow Mark Bonham and moderated by Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers will follow the presentation.
This event will only be online.
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Speakers
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Nathalie Des RosiersPrincipal, Massey CollegeNathalie Des Rosiers is the Principal of Massey College. From 2016-2019, she was MPP representing the riding of Ottawa-Vanier. She was Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry from January to June 2018. Prior to politics, she was the Dean of Law, Common Law at the University of Ottawa (2013-2016), General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (2009-2013), Vice-President, Governance , University of Ottawa (2008-2009), Dean of Law, Civil Law (2004-2008) and President of the LAW Commission of Canada (2000-2004). With Peter Oliver and Patrick Macklem, she co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Canadian Constitutional Law (2017). She also wrote with Louise Langevin and Marie-Pier Nadeau, L’indemnisation des victimes de violence sexuelle et conjugale (Prix Walter Owen, 2014). She has received the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, honorary doctorates from Université UCL (Belgium) and the Law Society of Ontario, le Prix Christine Tourigny (Barreau du Québec) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Dimitry AnastakisSenior Fellow; LR Wilson/RJ Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and at the Rotman School of Management
Dimitry Anastakis is the LR Wilson/RJ Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Along with being a Senior Fellow at Massey he is a Senior Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History. A scholar of postwar Canadian business and the economy, Professor Anastakis has published extensively on the history of the Canadian automotive industry, including two award-winning books on the subject. He has also contributed works on federalism, globalization, and general histories of Canada, including Re-Creation, Fragmentation and Resilience: A Brief History of Canada since 1945 (Oxford, 2018). His current research projects include finishing a book about the Bricklin SV-1, a car produced in Canada in the 1970s, and embarking on a major research project on postwar Canadian neoliberalism and free trade as part of the SSHRC Partnership Grant, “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time.” Professor Anastakis is Chair of the Canadian Business History Association – l’association canadienne pour l’histoire des affaires (CBHA/ACHA), oversees the Business History Reading Group at the University of Toronto, and is general editor of the Themes in Business and Society series from the University of Toronto Press. Professor Anastakis is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada
Professor Anastakis’s scholarship has been recognized both nationally and internationally. His book Autonomous State was the 2014 co-winner (and first Canadian recipient) of the Hagley Prize in Business History, the leading prize in business history, awarded by the Business History Conference and the Hagley Museum of Wilmington, Delaware. Autonomous State also won the Canadian Historical Association Political History Group’s Best Book on Political History and was shortlisted for the SSHRC Canada Prize in the Humanities. His book Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry (2005) was awarded the J.J. Talman Award in 2008 as the best book on Ontario history published in the previous three years.
Professor Anastakis has appeared and been quoted in the media extensively, including CTV, CBC, Global News, TVO, Bloomberg/BNN and numerous newspapers and websites, and his research has been discussed in the National Post and the New York Times. Professor Anastakis has also published articles in The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, the Guardian Online, the Literary Review of Canada, and American Prospect Online. He previously served as the co-editor of the Canadian Historical Review, following a term as chair of that journal’s editorial board. Currently, he edits The CHR Presents… for the Journal.
Prior to coming to the University of Toronto, Professor Anastakis taught at Trent University, where he served as the Chair of the Department of Canadian Studies and was a member of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies. He was the 2002-3 Michigan State-Fulbright Chair in Canadian Studies and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and the Norman Patterson School for Advanced International Affairs at Carleton University. Professor Anastakis also spent two years as a Senior Advisor in the Ontario government. He received his Ph.D. from York University in 2001.
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Mark BonhamSenior Fellow; Executive Director, The Veritas Foundation
Mark S. Bonham is the Executive Director of The Veritas Foundation, a non-profit charitable public foundation whose mission is to be Canada’s authoritative source for individuals, groups and companies to participate in the country’s charitable sector and evaluate its effectiveness and impact. Mark is a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. An LGBTQ educator and activist, Mark was included in the Financial Times of London (UK) OUTstanding LGBT Global Business Leaders list in 2017 and was named the 2018 Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Mark has had an extensive career in the Canadian financial industry, having founded two public mutual fund companies in Canada. Mark is the author or editor of six books to date: Trade-Offs: The History of Canada-U.S. Trade Negotiations (2019), Becoming 150: 150 Years of Canadian Business History (2018), A Path to Diversity: LGBTQ Participation in the Working World (2017), Notables: 101 Global LGBTQ People who Changed the World (2015), and Champions: Biographies of Global LGBTQ Pioneers (2014). As an LGBTQ activist, Mark is Co-Founder and Managing Editor of the online biographical encyclopedia QueerBio.Com, a source of biographical information on over 17,000 international LGBTQ individuals and recognized by the U.S. Library of Congress as a site of material archival and research significance. Mark is also a contributor to The Canadian Encyclopedia on the financial industry. A Co- Founder and Member of the Board of the Canadian Business History Association, Mark is the past Board Chair of the Toronto Botanical Garden and has endowed the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. At the University’s Rotman School of Management, Mark has endowed the Bonham Chair in International Finance and created the Bonham Scholarship for MBA students. Among his many community projects, Mark has co-chaired the capital campaign for Toronto’s new LGBTQI2S youth homeless shelter and was the co-Chair and Lead Donor of the Casey House Hospital Capital Campaign. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the inaugural Alumni of Influence Award from the University of Toronto (2012), the Clarkson Laureateship in Public Service (2016), and is a Member of the Group of 175, being the 175 most influential graduates of the University of Toronto (2002).
