Ezekiel Hart built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Ezekiel Hart as Jewish Canadian entrepreneur and politician.
Ezekiel Hart was born at Trois-Rivières in 1770. His recorded nationality is Canada.
This was the age of chartered companies and long-distance trade, when a single voyage could make or ruin a house.
He worked as entrepreneur and politician.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
That the business was built from Canada shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Ezekiel Hart died in 1843, aged 73. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
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