Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Introduction xi
5. The Staple Approach
6. Economic Factors in Canadian History 3
7. The Importance of Staple Products 15
8. A Staple Theory of Economic Growth 19
9. Myth and Measurement: The Innis Tradition in Economic History 39
10. Early Staples, Agriculture and Finance
11. The Fur Trade in Canada 53
12. “All the Fish of the Post:” Resource Property Rights and Development in a Nineteenth-Century Inshore Fishery 61
13. The New Brunswick Economy in the Nineteenth-Century 79
14. Why Was Specie so Scarce in Colonial Economics? An Analysis of the Canadian Currency, 1796-1830 85
15. The Efficiency of the French-Canadian Farmer in the Nineteenth Century 103
16. Transition to Industrial Capitalism
17. Trends in the Business History of Canada, 1867-1914 127
18. The Working Class and Industrial Development in Ontario to 1890 141
19. The National Policy and the Rate of Prairie Settlement: A Review 167
20. A Revision of Canadian Economic Growth, 1870-1910 (A Challenge to the Gradualist Interpretation) 189
21. Growth and Stagnation in the Twentieth Century
22. Capital Formation in Canada, 1896-1930 211
23. Financial Development and Capital Formation 223
24. Economic Growth in the Atlantic Region, 1880-1940 239
25. The Evolution of Quebec Government Spending, 1867-1969 267