Unequal beginnings : agriculture and economic development in Québec and Ontario until 1870 /
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, a...
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©1980.
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| Series: | State and economic life.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Index of authors citeda
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