Progress without Planning : : The Economic History of Toronto from Confederation to the Second World War /

Progress without Planning : : The Economic History of Toronto from Confederation to the Second World War / / Ian Drummond.

From the time of Confederation into the twentieth century, Ontario hurtled headlong into prosperity, reaping the benefits of abundant natural resources, favourable conditions for agriculture, access to shipping routes, proximity to American markets, and burgeoning markets of its own. In this second...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
VerfasserIn:
Drummond, Ian ,
MitwirkendeR:
Beck, Jeanne,
Careless, Maurice,
Drummond, Ian,
French, Goldwin,
George, Peter,
Inwood, Kris,
Oliver, Peter,
Sinclair, Peter W.,
Traves, Tom,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©1987
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (526 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Ontario Historical Studies Series
  • General Preface
  • Preface
  • Tables
  • Part One: Overview
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What People Did
  • Part Two: The Land and the New Frontiers
  • 3. Agriculture, 1867–1941
  • 4. Ontario’s Mining Industry, 1870–1940
  • 5. The North and the North-West: Forestry and Agriculture
  • 6. The Oil and Gas Industry
  • Part Three: The Industrial Revolution in Ontario
  • 7. Ontario’s Industrial Revolution, 1867–1914
  • 8. The Electrification of Ontario
  • 9. Manufacturing, 1914–41
  • 10. The Development of Industrial Cities
  • 11. The Iron and Steel Industry
  • 12. The Development of the Ontario Automobile Industry to 1939
  • 13. Labour and Capital
  • 14. Protecting the Workers
  • Part Four: Transportation, Communication, Trade, and Finance
  • 15. The Older Means of Transport and Communication: Rail, Water, and the Early Electric Media
  • 16. Roads, Airways, and Airwaves: Changing Modes of Communication in the Twentieth Century
  • 17. The Revolution in Ontario Commerce
  • 18. Financial Evolution
  • 19. The Provincial ‘Exchequer’
  • Statistical Appendixes
  • Notes
  • Index

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