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Canadian Economic History
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The focus throughout is on the role played by business organizations, large and small, working with government, in creating a national economy in Canada.
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Table of contents
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- MAPS
- PART I. STAPLES AND COLONIAL EXPANSION
- CHAPTER I. THE EUROPEAN BACKGROUND
- CHAPTER II. ECONOMIC BEGINNINGS: MARITIME AND CONTINENTAL
- CHAPTER III. NORTH ATLANTIC RIVALRIES: 1650–1713
- CHAPTER IV. CONTINENTAL EXPANSION: 1650–1713
- CHAPTER V. WAR AND TRADE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC: 1713–1776
- CHAPTER VI. THE CONTINENTAL FUR TRADE: 1713–1776
- CHAPTER VII. RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: 1783–1815
- PART II. ESCAPE FROM COLONIALISM
- CHAPTER VIII. THE CONTINENTAL FUR TRADE AND WESTWARD EXPANSION: 1776–1821
- CHAPTER IX. THE TIMBER TRADE
- CHAPTER X. THE NORTH PACIFIC: 1783–1821
- CHAPTER XI. THE MARITIME PROVINCES: 1815–1867
- CHAPTER XII. THE ST. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS, 1815–1849 TRANSPORTATION
- CHAPTER XIII. THE ST. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS, 1815–1849: IMMIGRATION, LAND SETTLEMENT, AGRICULTURE, AND TRADE POLICY
- CHAPTER XIV. THE COMING OF THE RAILWAY
- CHAPTER XV. THE CONTINENTAL HINTERLAND AND THE PACIFIC COAST: 1821–1870
- CHAPTER XVI. THE STRATEGY OF CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT: PART I, 1849 TO CONFEDERATION
- PART III. TRANSCONTINENTAL ECONOMY
- CHAPTER XVII. THE STRATEGY OF CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT: PART II, CONFEDERATION AND THE NATIONAL POLICY
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAYS
- CHAPTER XIX. MONEY AND BANKING IN CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER XX. THE WHEAT ECONOMY
- CHAPTER XXI. THE NEW INDUSTRIALISM
- CHAPTER XXII. LABOUR AND LABOUR ORGANIZATIONS
- CHAPTER XXIII. CHANGING PATTERNS OF INVESTMENT AND TRADE
- INDEX