Canadian Economic History: Classic and Contemporary Approaches 9780773585256

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Introduction
Suggested Readings
Part One: The Staple Approach
Economic Factors in Canadian History
The Importance of Staple Products
A Staple Theory of Economic Growth
Myth and Measurement: The Innis Tradition in Economic History
Part Two: Early Staples, Agriculture and Finance
The Fur Trade in Canada
"All the Fish of the Post:" Resource Property Rights and Development in a Nineteenth-Century Inshore Fishery
The New Brunswick Economy in the Nineteenth-Century
Why Was Specie so Scarce in Colonial Economics? An Analysis of the Canadian Currency, 1796–1830
The Efficiency of the French-Canadian Farmer in the Nineteenth Century
Part Three: Transition to Industrial Capitalism
Trends in the Business History of Canada, 1867–1914
The Working Class and Industrial Development in Ontario to 1890
The National Policy and the Rate of Prairie Settlement: A Review
A Revision of Canadian Economic Growth, 1870–1910 (A Challenge to the Gradualist Interpretation)
Part Four: Growth and Stagnation in the Twentieth Century
Capital Formation in Canada, 1896–1930
Financial Development and Capital Formation
Economic Growth in the Atlantic Region, 1880–1940
The Evolution of Quebec Government Spending, 1867–1969

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