Canadian Economic History / / W.T. Easterbrook, Hugh Aitken.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Easterbrook, W.T.,; Aitken, Hugh,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (606 p.)

Through three centuries of development, the history of the Canadian economy reflects the shifting roles of natural resources, industrializations, and international trade. This volume, a standard in the field since its initial publication in 1958, presents a comprehensive account of these and other factors in the growth of the Canadian economy from the time of the earliest European expansion into the Americas. The authors consider economic organization both on the level of the national economy and on that of the individual business unit. Among the subjects examined are the growth of the fur, fishing, and timber trades; the impact of successive wars; money and banking; the development of railway and canal systems; the wheat economy; the growth of organized labour; and twentieth-century patterns of investment and trade. The focus throughout is on the role played by business organizations, large and small, working with government, in creating a national economy in Canada.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- PART I. STAPLES AND COLONIAL EXPANSION -- CHAPTER I. THE EUROPEAN BACKGROUND -- CHAPTER II. ECONOMIC BEGINNINGS: MARITIME AND CONTINENTAL -- CHAPTER III. NORTH ATLANTIC RIVALRIES: 1650–1713 -- CHAPTER IV. CONTINENTAL EXPANSION: 1650–1713 -- CHAPTER V. WAR AND TRADE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC: 1713–1776 -- CHAPTER VI. THE CONTINENTAL FUR TRADE: 1713–1776 -- CHAPTER VII. RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: 1783–1815 -- PART II. ESCAPE FROM COLONIALISM -- CHAPTER VIII. THE CONTINENTAL FUR TRADE AND WESTWARD EXPANSION: 1776–1821 -- CHAPTER IX. THE TIMBER TRADE -- CHAPTER X. THE NORTH PACIFIC: 1783–1821 -- CHAPTER XI. THE MARITIME PROVINCES: 1815–1867 -- CHAPTER XII. THE ST. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS, 1815–1849 TRANSPORTATION -- CHAPTER XIII. THE ST. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS, 1815–1849: IMMIGRATION, LAND SETTLEMENT, AGRICULTURE, AND TRADE POLICY -- CHAPTER XIV. THE COMING OF THE RAILWAY -- CHAPTER XV. THE CONTINENTAL HINTERLAND AND THE PACIFIC COAST: 1821–1870 -- CHAPTER XVI. THE STRATEGY OF CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT: PART I, 1849 TO CONFEDERATION -- PART III. TRANSCONTINENTAL ECONOMY -- CHAPTER XVII. THE STRATEGY OF CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT: PART II, CONFEDERATION AND THE NATIONAL POLICY -- CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAYS -- CHAPTER XIX. MONEY AND BANKING IN CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER XX. THE WHEAT ECONOMY -- CHAPTER XXI. THE NEW INDUSTRIALISM -- CHAPTER XXII. LABOUR AND LABOUR ORGANIZATIONS -- CHAPTER XXIII. CHANGING PATTERNS OF INVESTMENT AND TRADE -- INDEX