Development of Canadian Economic System
Alfred Nobel University, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Subject: “Economics”
From: Tania Rodymenko
IE-12-2a
To: Kosyakina E.A.
Development of Canadian
Economic System
Dnipropetrovsk
2013
Сontents:
1. Introduction 3 2. Atlantic fisheries 4 3. Mercantilism and Corporatism 4 4. Fur trade 4-5 5. Timber 5-7 6. Upper Canada 8 7. Capitalism and Finance 8 8. Canals 9 9. Railways 9-11 10. Confederation 11-12 11. The National Policy 12 12. Post-Confederation slump 12-13 13. Boom years 13 a. Ontario 13-14 b. Prairies 14-15 14. The First World War and the Roaring '20s 15 15. The Great Depression 15 16. The Second World War and the boom years 16 17. Recent years 17 18. References 18
Introduction
Canadian historians until the 1980s tended to focus on economic history, including labour history. In part this is because Canada has had far fewer political or military conflicts than other societies. This was especially true in the first half of the twentieth century when economic history was overwhelmingly dominant. Many of the most prominent English Canadian historians from this period were economic historians, such as Harold Innis, Donald Creighton and Arthur R. M. Lower Scholars of Canadian history were heirs to the traditions that developed in Europe and the United States, but frameworks that worked well elsewhere often failed in Canada. The heavily Marxist influenced economic history that dominates Europe has little relevance to most of Canadian history. A focus on class, urban areas, and industry fails to address Canada 's rural and resource based economy. Similarly, the monetarist school that is dominant in the United States also has been difficult to transfer north of the border. The study of economic history in Canada became highly focused on economic geography, and for many years the dominant
Subject: “Economics”
From: Tania Rodymenko
IE-12-2a
To: Kosyakina E.A.
Development of Canadian
Economic System
Dnipropetrovsk
2013
Сontents:
1. Introduction 3 2. Atlantic fisheries 4 3. Mercantilism and Corporatism 4 4. Fur trade 4-5 5. Timber 5-7 6. Upper Canada 8 7. Capitalism and Finance 8 8. Canals 9 9. Railways 9-11 10. Confederation 11-12 11. The National Policy 12 12. Post-Confederation slump 12-13 13. Boom years 13 a. Ontario 13-14 b. Prairies 14-15 14. The First World War and the Roaring '20s 15 15. The Great Depression 15 16. The Second World War and the boom years 16 17. Recent years 17 18. References 18
Introduction
Canadian historians until the 1980s tended to focus on economic history, including labour history. In part this is because Canada has had far fewer political or military conflicts than other societies. This was especially true in the first half of the twentieth century when economic history was overwhelmingly dominant. Many of the most prominent English Canadian historians from this period were economic historians, such as Harold Innis, Donald Creighton and Arthur R. M. Lower Scholars of Canadian history were heirs to the traditions that developed in Europe and the United States, but frameworks that worked well elsewhere often failed in Canada. The heavily Marxist influenced economic history that dominates Europe has little relevance to most of Canadian history. A focus on class, urban areas, and industry fails to address Canada 's rural and resource based economy. Similarly, the monetarist school that is dominant in the United States also has been difficult to transfer north of the border. The study of economic history in Canada became highly focused on economic geography, and for many years the dominant
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