Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. The Ontario Historical Studies Series vii
4. General Preface ix
5. Preface xi
6. Tables xiii
7. Part One: Overview
8. 1. Introduction 3
9. 2. What People Did 19
10. Part Two: The Land and the New Frontiers
11. 3. Agriculture, 1867–1941 29
12. 4. Ontario’s Mining Industry, 1870–1940 52
13. 5. The North and the North-West: Forestry and Agriculture 77
14. 6. The Oil and Gas Industry 91
15. Part Three: The Industrial Revolution in Ontario
16. 7. Ontario’s Industrial Revolution, 1867–1914 103
17. 8. The Electrification of Ontario 134
18. 9. Manufacturing, 1914–41 148
19. 10. The Development of Industrial Cities 166
20. 11. The Iron and Steel Industry 185
21. 12. The Development of the Ontario Automobile Industry to 1939 208
22. 13. Labour and Capital 224
23. 14. Protecting the Workers 232
24. Part Four: Transportation, Communication, Trade, and Finance
25. 15. The Older Means of Transport and Communication: Rail, Water, and the Early Electric Media 247
26. 16. Roads, Airways, and Airwaves: Changing Modes of Communication in the Twentieth Century 264
27. 17. The Revolution in Ontario Commerce 274
28. 18. Financial Evolution 309
29. 19. The Provincial ‘Exchequer’ 340
30. Statistical Appendixes 349
31. Notes 439
32. Index 487