Unequal Beginnings : : Agriculture and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario until 1870 / / John McCallum.
By the time of Confederation Ontario’s economic lead over Quebec had been well established. John McCallum shows that the origins of this lead had little to do with the conservatism of the habitants and the church in Quebec, little to do with any anti-industrial bias of the Montreal merchants, and no...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1980 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The rise and fall of the Ontario wheat staple
- 3. The agricultural crisis in Quebec
- 4. Agricultural transformation in Quebec and Ontario, 1850-70
- 5. Urban and commercial development until 1850
- 6. Transportation
- 7. Industrial development, 1850-70
- 8. A modified staple approach
- 9. Merchants and habitants
- Statistical appendix
- Subject index
- Index of authors cited
- Backmatter