Great Britain's Woodyard: British America and the Timber Trade, 1763-1867 9780773593275

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
I The History of the Trade
1 The British Metropolis
The Expansion of Great Britain's Economy
Metropolitanism and Metropolitan Status
Wood in the Metropolitan Economy
2 The Baltic Supply Region
The Sub-Regions of the Baltic
The Baltic as a Semi-Colony
Trade Practices and Techniques
3 The British American Hinterland
The Rivers and Forests
The Forest as Plunder
4 New Empires for Old, 1763-1795
A United Empire
A New Empire on the St. Lawrence
A New Empire on Other Rivers
5 Wood and War
The War with the French Republic
The Crisis of 1808-1809
Creation of a British American Timber Trade
Doubling the Differential Duties
Effect of the Tariff on Prices During the Wars
6 The New Trade and Those who Established It
The Port Merchants
The First Lumbermen
Philemon Wright on the Ottawa
The Routes to Salt Water
7 A Generation of Monopoly
The Course of Trade, 1814-1846
Boom and Crash in the 1820s
Relative Stability in the 1830s
A New Depression, 1837-1842
Recovery in 1843
8 The Course of the Differential Duties
The First Reduction, 1821
The Colonial Trade Acts of the 1820s
The Attempted Whig Reduction of 1831
The Timber Committee of 1835
The Report of 1840
The Second Whig Attempt at Reduction
Sir Robert Peel's Reduction of 1842
The Approach of Free Trade
The Reduction of 1846
The Colonial Revolution
The Loss of Protection
Rearrangement of the British American Trade
9 The Timber Duties and Mercantilist Ideas
The `Colonial System'
Arguments upon the Differential Duties
For the Duties
Against the Duties
10 From Mercantilism to Free Trade
Readjustment and Realignment, 1846-1867
An Alternative Market
A Period of Readjustment: 1846-1854
The Crimean War
The Crisis of 1857
The Triumph of the Baltic
11 Timber Trade Without Preference
End of the Square Timber Trade
Rearrangements in the British Market
The Distant Future
II The Anatomy of the Trade
Prefatory Note
12 Timber Dealers and their Roles
The Organization of the Trade in Great Britain
Historic Firms
The Trade in British North America
The Price Family
The Trade in New Brunswick
Trading Conditions and Arrangements
Business Practice
What Determined Price?
13 Timbermakers: Their Rise and Decline
Square Timbers vs. Deals
The Amateur Timbermaker
The First Timbermakers
Timbermakers Grow in Stature
Timbermakers in New Brunswick
Producer and Capitalist
End of the Square Timber Trade
14 The Deal Manufacturer
Nature of the Industry
Technical Progress
John R. Booth
The Hamiltons of Hawkesbury
15 Shantyman and Raftsman
The Folklore of Lumbering
The Shantymen
Rafsmans et Draveurs
Were les Rafsmans Rascals?
16 In the Bush and on the River
Public Policy
The Winter Campaign
Rafting the Timber down the Rivers
Westward over the Lakes
The Timber Slide
17 The Port of Quebec in the Nineteenth Century
The Timber Coves
The Rafts Arrive
Culling the Timber
Timber Grading
18 From River to Ship
Loading the Timber Ships
Port Labour
The Timber Fleets
Charters and Freights
19 'Leather Ships and Sailors' Coffins'
Sea-going Slums
Colonial Ships
The Size of the Ships
The Guilt of the Shipowners
The Emigrant Trade and its Tragedies
Outward Cargoes
Conclusion
Glossary
Charts
Index

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