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

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...

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