- Luyện đọc đầu ngày: ALEXANDER HENDERSON (1831-1913)
Born in Scotland, Henderson emigrated to Canada in 1855 and became a well-known landscape photographer.
Alexander Henderson was born in Scotland in 1831 and was the son of a successful merchant. His grandfather, also called Alexander, had founded the family business, and later became the first chairman of the National Bank of Scotland. The family had extensive landholdings in Scotland. Besides its residence in Edinburgh, it owned Press Estate, 650 acres of farmland about 35 miles southeast of the city. The family often stayed at Press Castle, the large mansion on the northern edge of the property, and Alexander spent much of his childhood in the area, playing on the beach near Eyemouth or fishing in the streams nearby.
Even after he went to school at Murcheston Academy on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Henderson returned to Press at weekends. In 1849 he began a three-year apprenticeship to become an accountant. Although he never liked the prospect of a business career, he stayed with it to please his family. In October 1855, however, he emigrated to Canada with his wife Agnes Elder Robertson and they settled in Montreal.
Henderson learned photography in Montreal around the year 1857 and quickly took it up as a serious amateur. He became a personal friend and colleague of the Scottish-Canadian photographer William Notman. The two men made a photographic excursion to Niagara Falls in 1860 and they cooperated on experiments with magnesium flares as a source of artificial light in 1865. They belonged to the same societies and were among the founding members of the Art Association of Montreal. Henderson acted as chairman of the association's first meeting, which was held in Notman's studio on 11 January 1860.
In spite of their friendship, their styles of photography were quite different. While Notman's landscapes were noted for their bold realism, Henderson for the first 20 years of his career produced romantic images, showing the strong influence of the British landscape tradition. His artistic and technical progress was rapid and in 1865 he published his first major collection of landscape photographs. The publication had limited circulation (only seven copies have ever been found), and was called Canadian Views and Studies. The contents of each copy vary significantly and have proved a useful source for evaluating Henderson's early work.
In 1866, he gave up his business to open a photographic studio, advertising himself as a portrait and landscape photographer. From about 1870 he dropped portraiture to specialize in landscape photography and other views. His numerous photographs of city life revealed in street scenes, houses, and markets are alive with human activity, and although his favourite subject was landscape he usually composed his scenes around such human pursuits as farming the land, cutting ice on a river, or sailing down a woodland stream. There was sufficient demand for these types of scenes and others he took depicting the lumber trade, steamboats and waterfalls to enable him to make a living. There was little competing hobby or amateur photography before the late 1880s because of the time-consuming techniques involved and the weight of the equipment. People wanted to buy photographs as souvenirs of a trip or as gifts, and catering to this market, Henderson had stock photographs on display at his studio for mounting, framing, or inclusion in albums.
Henderson frequently exhibited his photographs in Montreal and abroad, in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, New York, and Philadelphia. He met with greater success in 1877 and 1878 in New York when he won first prizes in the exhibition held by E and HT Anthony and Company for landscapes using the Lambertype process. In 1878 his work won second prize at the world exhibition in Paris.
In the 1870s and 1880s Henderson travelled widely throughout Quebec and Ontario, in Canada, documenting the major cities of the two provinces and many of the villages in Quebec. He was especially fond of the wilderness and often travelled by canoe on the Blanche, du Lievre, and other noted eastern rivers. He went on several occasions to the Maritimes and in 1872 he sailed by yacht along the lower north shore of the St Lawrence River. That same year, while in the lower St Lawrence River region, he took some photographs of the construction of the Intercolonial Railway. This undertaking led in 1875 to a commission from the railway to record the principal structures along the almost-completed line connecting Montreal to Halifax. Commissions from other railways followed. In 1876 he photographed bridges on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway between Montreal and Ottawa. In 1885 he went west along the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) as far as Rogers Pass in British Columbia, where he took photographs of the mountains and the progress of construction.
In 1892 Henderson accepted a full-time position with the CPR as manager of a photographic department which he was to set up and administer. His duties included spending four months in the field each year. That summer he made his second trip west, photographing extensively along the railway line as far as Victoria. He continued in this post until 1897, when he retired completely from photography.
When Henderson died in 1913, his huge collection of glass negatives was stored in the basement of his house. Today collections of his work are held at the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, and the McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal.
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These companies are working from home until 2021
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[借屍還魂—皇蘇銀行又變返西敏銀行]RBS的前世今生
1. 舊文寫過金融M&A定律,其實只有A,沒有M (http://bit.ly/2SulNlN):
2. 「最初係A,B,吞併咗就A+B,但記住分莊閒,最後就變成A自己。B個名掉落屎坑。例子太多。隨口講都講到,摩根士丹利添惠,摩根大通,瑞士信貸第一波士頓,瑞銀華寶,匯控獲多利,法國巴黎百富勤。當然仲有,星展唯高達。」
3. 不過,總有例外。RBS,情人節,話改返名做NatWest。老母要個女嘅名。
4. 先講RBS,Royal Bank of Scotland 又係,唔準諗,即刻答,中文係乜?
5. 你見我講皇蘇(同西甲皇家蘇斯達一樣,亦係我地以前嘅無聊gag),睇英文都係皇先蘇後,但官方譯名應該係蘇格蘭皇家銀行。我都唔係好明。正如我唔係好明點解中文係三井住友但英文係Sumitomo Mitsui(大佬,三井住友唔係一條友,唔係姓同名邊個行先嘅分別)
6. 點解我知?因為,以前時代廣場佢地有楝寫字樓冠名!就叫蘇格蘭皇家銀行大廈。唔止,呢楝嘢亦都曾經叫做國民西敏大廈(應該係之前)—拿,記住,伏線嚟的!記住!
7. 點解咁記得?因為初做蕉行時,本人係刁拿青衣嘛(後來就刁拿)。嗰時就做啲interbank嘅嘢(所以梗係有資格講HIBOR講美匯)。銀行之間拆借呢,而家我唔知,但到我走嗰時(2006),都仲係經電話。當然唔使打,係嗌入去,有經紀搞。
8. 由於啲經紀都係本地薑,所以同你想像中唔同,係全部講廣東話嘅。於是耐唔耐啲銀行就會有花名。咁RBS,花名係叫「銅鑼灣」,因為寫字樓在銅鑼灣。然後聽講呢個名都有咗好耐。
10. 如果我冇記錯(但錯咗可更正),銅鑼灣嗰座嘢,最初係叫Nat West Tower,後來先改名。點解?正係因為,RBS買起咗NatWest
11. 實不相瞞,本人呢,居然係在NatWest有個戶口的!點解?英國讀書嘛。如果冇記錯,當年NatWest嘅點(提款機啦)多過HSBC.同埋,好似仲有開戶送10英鎊。而當時正係RBS剛剛買起NatWest
12. 然後又要講,其實呢壇嘢之前,英國銀行係有所謂嘅迫科(正如日本乜乜都要御三家)。就係巴克萊(英超呀),萊斯,米特蘭銀行,同埋NatWest—而你大約都估到,NatWest又係由呢間嘢,Nat同West合埋,前者不重要,後者係Westminster Bank,伏線嚟。年紀夠大嘅(例如我)會知後來米特蘭銀行就成為HSBC 一部份,正如後來NatWest就畀RBS吞咗
13. 個重點係,最初RBS根本唔多入流(你可以當係曼城咁),但隨住NatWest實在太West,經營不善,股價一路跌,於是RBS就敵意收購。佢仲要係擊退咗Bank of Scotland(留意唔係RBS,呢檔嘢已成為萊斯一部份)。因乜?因為Bank of Scotland就話會賣走NatWest嘅其他附屬公司,包括Ulster Bank.但RBS就吞埋佢,有情有義,勝出—不過之後炒咗兩萬人。但無論如何,呢單係英國史上最大敵意收購。
14. 順手講埋,Ulster Bank,去過北愛(我就去過!)會見到。 Ulster九郡,六個係北愛(即係英國,拎你本BNO你睇下啦),三個係南邊愛爾蘭共和國,當中歷史不細講。但另外話你知, Ulster Bank 係發鈔的!所謂嘅「北愛鎊」,正如蘇格蘭會有「蘇格蘭鎊」。其實都係英鎊(蘇格蘭同北愛爾蘭是大不列顛及北愛爾蘭聯合王國不可分割的一部份啦唏),但你拎返英國「本土」應該係用唔到嘅。
15. 仲有, Ulster Fry係好東西,挑戰你心血管,膽固醇萬歲,係傳統British Fry up 嘅加強版。必食,我都食過,仲未死。
16. 講返,你見RBS真係極勇,乜都攬晒上身。05年佢地亦都入股中國銀行10%,但重點都係2007年嘅經典大併購—咁你估到了,2007年買嘢,梗係摸頂啦!然後2008年金融海嘯,仲唔仆街?我舊文有講過 (http://bit.ly/2ZhfqE8):
17. 比利時富通(Fortis),西班牙桑坦德(Santander,西甲呀喂)同埋RBS 皇家蘇格蘭銀行齊齊買起荷蘭銀行,當時係史上最大收購。結果摸晒頂,之後輸到RBS 同 Fortis仆街,兩間在金融海嘯都幾乎沒頂(最好笑係平保就走去買Fortis,好短時間就變廢紙),RBS更加創下英國企業史上最大嘅虧損,而家都未有人打破,巧威威。嗰日好勁,RBS股價,一日就跌咗七成!一日。呢啲先叫股災。萊斯一日跌三成,匯控就「只係」6%
18. 之後點?其實呢間嘢幾乎沒頂,當時亦都傳巴克萊收購,幾乎就迫科變迫飛。最後呢?就係供股,賣資產(中國銀行嘅10%股權,仲有其他東西),同埋—登登登,納稅人攬上身!
19. 係喎,金融海嘯,除咗美國政府將銀行攬上身,英國都係,好兄弟嘛,貝理雅係布殊隻狗嘛(金融海嘯佢就剛走人!一世好運,接手嘅白高敦真係慘過西)。納稅人嘅錢救銀行,銀行家照出大花紅。英殖真好。
20. 同美國唔同嘅係,英國政府一渣就渣到而家。是的,到呢一刻為止,RBS都仲係真國企,英國政府渣六成幾股權
21. 聽聞今次改名,就係為咗令人忘記RBS嘅黑歷史。但大佬,十年啦喎,即係好似陳冠希咁,我地由上個鼠年講到今個鼠年啦。
22. 股價啦喎,即時跌7%,唔知係對業績不滿定改名不滿。不過小事。07年RBS股價係60鎊,而家係2鎊。納稅人啲錢啦喎,就算啦
23. 最後一講,伏線。「國民西敏寺銀行」,擺明係錯譯。不過唔係報紙嘅錯,同情地理解,其實官方(即係銀行本身)有時都用呢個名(http://bit.ly/2uNFqMM)。
24. 錯在邊?國民西敏寺係乜東東?NatWest,National Westminster.National係國民無誤,但Westminster做乜會變咗「西敏寺」?
25. 十分明顯地,係當年嘅誤譯。Westminster係個區,Palace of Westminster係西敏宮,即係國,你唔會叫西敏寺官。Westminster Cathedral係西敏大教堂,唔係西敏寺大教堂。Westminster Abbey先係西敏寺。所以Westminster Bank當然係西敏銀行。NatWest就係國民西敏銀行。以前啲師爺亂嚟就算,但去到而家應該改返。
26. 呀,BTW,最後鳴謝,金融海嘯未爆煲前,RBS都係好疏爽的。當年款待啲同業(其實係為咗賣垃圾畀行家),相當豪。嗰時(2005?)香港迪士尼開咗冇耐,吹水會後有迪士尼門票,外加酒店一晚!咁迪士尼我就麻麻,但酒店當然去!亦都係我一世人暫時唯一一次去迪士尼—爆房。事後星期六仲畀標哥打嚟嘈醒(當年仲有長短週),然後我同條女去咗東涌UA睇 「童夢奇緣」。十分開心。
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