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	Louis Rasminsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis Rasminsky (February 1, 1908, Montreal - September 15, 1998, Ottawa) was the third Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973, succeeding James Coyne.
		He was raised in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics, learning with John Maynard Keynes and Harold Laski.
		His daughter, Lola Rasminsky, currently is Founder and Director of the Avenue Road ARts School in Toronto.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Rasminsky (209 words)

	Against the Odds: The Public Life and Times of Louis Rasminsky by Francine McKenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The subject illuminates the time in which he or she lived, and in that respect is a means to a broader understanding of the past, and the past must be understood to comprehend the forces that shaped the individual.
		There is no question that Louis Rasminsky, governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973, is a worthy subject of a biography.
		There is one aspect of Rasminsky's public life that Muirhead glosses over: his activism in the Jewish community after his retirement from the bank.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/701/odds130.html (626 words)

	Publications and Research - Speeches - 2003 5 September - Bank of Canada
		Louis Rasminsky, who went on to become Governor of the Bank of Canada, was one of Canada's delegates at the Bretton Woods Conference that led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
		Rasminsky played an important role, formal and informal, at the talks.
		Not only was he the Chair of the drafting committee, he was also the peacemaker between the British delegation, led by John Maynard Keynes, and the U.S. delegation, led by Treasury Secretary Harry Dexter White.
	www.bankofcanada.ca /en/speeches/2003/sp03-12.html (2296 words)

	Louis Rasminsky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Louis Rasminsky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		He was made a Companion of the (Click link for more info and facts about Order of Canada) Order of Canada in 1968.
		His daughter, F. Rasminsky, currently is an Accounting teacher at York Memorial Collegiate Institute.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/louis_rasminsky.htm (236 words)

	MPP's make $8,000 per year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We read the other day that Louis Rasminsky, governor of the Bank of Canada, has received a 50% salary increase.
		Rasminsky on a salary on par with N.M. MacMillan, president of Canadian National Railways, who was previously Canada's highest paid public servant.
		Before the country roads were kept open for winter motor traffic, what would our ancestors have given for such vehicles to shorten the time spent on their long, cold trips into town every week!
	heresthescoop.net /HJBMPPsMake8000.html (361 words)

	U. of T. The Bulletin, September 16/96 Forum
		In the early days, in the 1920s, Louis Rasminsky, the youngest (and most doted on) of four children in his family, went to Lansdowne Public School and Harbord Collegiate.
		Rasminsky won a scholarship to the University of Toronto and went on to the London School of Economics.
		He came under the tutelage and influence of John Maynard Keynes and Harold Laski, returned to Canada as a government economist and was involved in the restructuring of the world economy after Second World War at the Breton Woods Conference and Dunbarton Oaks.
	www.news.utoronto.ca /bin/bulletin/sept16_96/forum.htm (1612 words)

	President's Column
		One was by Bruce Muirhead, an historian at Lakehead University who is the biographer of Louis Rasminsky, governor of the Bank of Canada in the 1960s.
		Muirhead suggested that events like the recent financial collapse of Indonesia show that the IMF is still struggling with the consequences of the defeat of Rasminsky’s proposals, and with the need to enlarge its responsibilities.
		Daniel Bradlow, a law professor at American University in Washington, concurred, noting that the IMF is now having to become active and knowledgeable in fields of corporate governance, bankruptcy law, social safety nets, domestic banking regulation, despite these being fields in which historically it has had little expertise.
	www.mun.ca /accute/frankj99.html (453 words)

	Alibris: Bruce Muirhead
		Against the odds is the story of a man who played an important role in the postwar economic development of Canada.
		Louis Rasminsky, governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973, was one of only two Jewish senior civil servants in Canada when he was appointed.
		This authorized biography of Rasminsky's professional life will enlighten anyone...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Muirhead,Bruce (126 words)

	ipedia.com: Bank of Canada Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This caused a brief crisis as Bank was supposed to be an arms length organization not under political control.
		Coyne resigned and was replaced by Louis Rasminsky.
		The bank gradually moved to a more anti-inflation policy and since the 1980s keeping inflation low has been its main priority.
	www.ipedia.com /bank_of_canada.html (717 words)

	Find in a Library: Against the odds : the public life and times of Louis Rasminsky
		Against the odds : the public life and times of Louis Rasminsky
		Subjects: Rasminsky, L. -- 1908- -- (Louis),
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/cfe43687f538e3bda19afeb4da09e526.html (75 words)

	Canada and the World Backgrounder: International finance: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the people credited with finding compromises was Louis Rasminsky of the Canadian delegation.
		The chief architects of the financial structures created at Bretton Woods were Britain's Lord Keynes, Harry Dexter White and Henry Morgenthau Jr., of the United States, and, to a lesser extent, Louis Rasminsky of Canada.
		What they designed was a system that gave governments a significant role in managing their own economies.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3695/is_200309/ai_n9280821 (1451 words)

	Current Concerns Penney Clark A Global Perspective
		She suggests that we redefine our notions of heroism and greatness; pointing out that while Canadians have often taken an unassuming role in international affairs, they have, nonetheless, been effective.
		She mentions Louis Rasminsky, a Canadian economist who designed the International Monetary Fund in 1944.
		The Americans took credit for this feat because it was accomplished at the Breton Woods (New Hampshire) conference.
	www.quasar.ualberta.ca /css/current_concerns_penney_clark.htm (800 words)

	Documents on Canadian External Relations (DCER) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It might also be suggested to the United States that convertibility and the removal of trade restrictions would be advantageous both to them and to us.
		Deutsch, Rasminsky and Bull on the Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Conference; and
		The Canadian delegation was led by D.C. Abbott, who was assisted by W.F. Bull, John Deutsch and Louis Rasminsky.
	dfait-maeci.gc.ca /department/history/dcer/details-en.asp?intRefid=546 (1465 words)

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		Lakehead University historian Bruce Muirhead's Against the Odds (University of Toronto Press), a fascinating biography of Louis Rasminsky, former Governor of the Bank of Canada, wins the Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Award for Canadian Jewish History.
		The Louis L. Lockshin Memorial Prize for Scholarship on a Jewish Theme goes jointly to co-editors Sara Silberstein Swartz and Margie Wolfe for their wonderful compilation of From Memory to Transformation: Jewish Women's Voices (Second Story Press).
		Maintaining a profile on modern writing in and translation from Yiddish is important and the Committee is pleased to honour poet Simcha Simchovitch as winner of the Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Prize for Yiddish in Translation for his excellent volume of English translations from his own Yiddish poetry, The Remnant (Mosaic Press).
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~judaic/newsletters/10-002p5.txt (2797 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Ottawa men: The civil service mandarins, 1935-1957 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Men such as O.D. Skelton, Clifford Clark, and Graham Towers dominated the era, with power bases in External Affairs, Finance, and the Bank of Canada.
		They recruited junior men such as Lester Pearson, Jack Pickersgill, Robert Bryce, Louis Rasminsky, and others, who in turn rose to hold positions of power.
		Granatstein argues that they created a modern governmental apparatus which could respond effectively to the most sophisticated economic and political initiatives.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802081819 (297 words)

	request for a name list. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Was dismissed by Chamberlain in attempt to placate Nazis who found out about his Jewish background and insisted that he was a "warmonger" for that reason.
		Louis Rasminsky - Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1961-1972.
		Born of Jewish Parents who hid their origins from her.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=7683 (4476 words)

	Rasminsky, Louis, The Work of the Central Bank
		Rasminsky, Louis, The Work of the Central Bank
		Rea, W. Harold President, The Canadian Club of Toronto
		How To Obtain a Speech: If you would like to obtain a copy of any of the speeches from the printed book, please make your request to the Club at The Empire Club of Canada, Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street West, Level "H", Toronto, Ontario, M5J 1E3.
	www.empireclubfoundation.com /details.asp?SpeechID=2078&FT=yes (406 words)

	\| Index to American Historical Review, June 2000 \| The American Historical Review, 105.3 \| The History Cooperative
		Feingold, Henry L. Feldman, Louis H. ''A Female Economy,'' by Kinnear, 914
		Muirhead, Bruce, ''Against the Odds: The Public Life and Times of Louis Rasminsky,'' 915
		Mundy, John Hine, ''Society and Government at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars,'' 991
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/105.3/ah001085.html (5559 words)

	Against The Odds The Public Life and Times of Louis Rasminsky. - MUIRHEAD, BRUCE. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Against The Odds The Public Life and Times of Louis Rasminsky.
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