The National Policy and the Wheat Economy / / Vernon Fowke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Fowke, Vernon,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1957
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canadian trade and discusses the grain marketing problems of Western Canada in the decades that followed, with detailed attention to legislation and moves by various growers' group...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Foreword
• Contents
• PART ONE. ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL POLICY
• CHAPTER ONE. The National Policy: A Matter of Definition
• CHAPTER TWO. Agriculture and the Investment Frontier before Confederation
• CHAPTER THREE. The Western Territories and the National Policy in Its Formative Years
• CHAPTER FOUR. Development and Integration of the National Policy
• CHAPTER FIVE. Establishment and Growth of the Wheat Economy
• PART TWO. GRAIN MARKETING PROBLEMS IN WESTERN CANADA 1900-20
• CHAPTER SIX. The National Policy: Competition and Monopoly
• CHAPTER SEVEN. Local Elevators and the Monopoly Issue before 1910
• CHAPTER EIGHT. Co-operation and Provincial Elevator Policy
• CHAPTER NINE. Western Protest and Dominion Policy
• PART THREE. THE OPEN MARKET REJECTED
• CHAPTER TEN. The Open Market System in the Inter-War Years
• CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Wheat Pools and the Open Market System: Origins of the Pools
• CHAPTER TWELVE. Marketing Policies of the Canadian Wheat Pools
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN. A Résumé of Experience with Contract Pools
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN. From Open Market to Compulsory Board
• PART FOUR. CONCLUSION
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN. The National Policy and the Wheat Economy
• Bibliography
• Index