In the Power of the Government : : The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932 / / Mark Kuhlberg.

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• VerfasserIn: Kuhlberg, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 6 figures, 15 maps

For forty years, historians have argued that early twentieth-century provincial governments in Canada were easily manipulated by the industrialists who developed Canada's natural resources, such as pulpwood, water power, and minerals. With In the Power of the Government, Mark Kuhlberg uses the case of the Ontario pulp and paper industry to challenge that interpretation of Canadian provincial politics.Examining the relationship between the corporations which ran the province's pulp and paper mills and the politicians at Queen's Park, Kuhlberg concludes that the Ontario government frequently rebuffed the demands of the industrialists who wanted to tap Ontario's spruce timber and hydro-electric potential. A sophisticated empirical challenge to the orthodox literature on this issue, In the Power of the Government will be essential reading for historians and political scientists interested in the history of Canadian industrial development.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Charts, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I. The Setting and the Liberals, 1894-1905 -- Section II. "Large tracts of land are not necessary for the business of any company": The Conservatives, 1905-1919 -- Section III. "In order to keep in office, they must play politics": The United Farmers of Ontario, 1919-1923 -- Section IV. "The chief is the whole show": The Conservatives, 1923-1932 -- Conclusion: "The availability of wood for industry is ambiguous" -- Notes -- Sources -- Index