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Wheat In Canadian History1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

F. W. Burton
F. W. Burton*
Affiliation:
St. John's College, Winnipeg
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The principal differentia of the Canadian economy are familiar. Because of the nature of her resources and her situation, Canada depends chiefly upon the production in quantity of a few staple commodities for export to those regions having less specialized resources and more diversified economies. Canada is thus subjected, willy-nilly, to a violent alternation of boom and depression by the fluctuation of demand in her foreign markets. Geography, moreover, has afflicted Canada with a transportation problem, which has two phases: in time of boom, the problem is how to obtain quickly more and cheaper transportation; in time of depression, how to pay out of her shrunken national income the heavy fixed costs incurred by the construction of transportation facilities.

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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , May 1937 , pp. 210 - 217
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1937

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Footnotes

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This: paper is based on work done while holding the Maurice Cody Fellowship at the University of Toronto.

References

2 For statistics on crops in Canada before Confederation, see the Canadian Census for 1871, vol. IV.Google Scholar

3 “Three Reports from the Select Committee on Trade and Commerce” (Upper Canada, Journal of Assembly, 1835, appendix, vol. I).Google Scholar

4 On this crisis, see Tucker, G. N., The Canadian Commercial Revolution, 1845-1851 (New Haven, 1936).Google Scholar