Nationalism, capitalism, and colonization in nineteenth-century Quebec : the upper St. Francis district / J.I. Little.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Little, J. I. (John Irvine), 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land settlement--Quebec (Province)--Saint Francis River Valley--History--19th century.

Land settlement.

French-Canadians--Quebec (Province)--Saint Francis River Valley--History--19th century.

French-Canadians.

Lumber trade--Quebec (Province)--Saint Francis River Valley--History--19th century.

Lumber trade.

Saint Francis River Valley (Québec)--History.

Saint Francis River Valley (Québec).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The settlements, economically based on lumber alone, were locked into poverty and dependency by Anglophone-monopoly control of the spruce forests. J.I. Little examines the ultimate failure of the British and Quebec settlement projects and argues that the stranglehold of the monopolies was broken only by the belated extension of the rail network into the Upper St Francis district. Canadians have only recently begun to question their model of company-leased Crown forest reserves and to become interested in the more efficient Scandinavian model of small-scale, privately owned woodlots. This book is one of the first to explore the ideological contradictions and social costs which followed from the entrenchment of large-scale lumber companies in a settled zone.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables

Maps and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Colonization Movement and the Agri-Forestry Economy in the Upper St Francis District

Feast or Famine: The British American Land Company and the Colonization of the St Francis Tract

Constructing the Lambton Road: Cul-de-sac for Imperial Expansion in Lower Canada

La Reconquête: The Church, the State and the Colonization Roads Project of 1848

Public Policy and Private Interest in the Lumber Industry of the Upper St Francis: The Role of C.S. Clark and Company

“The Pope’s Own Parish”, Nationalism and Conflict at Piopolis, 1871—81

Constructing a “Colonization” Railway: The St Francis and Megantic International, 1869—79

La Patrie: The Repatriation Colony, 1875-80

Forest Exploitation and Colonization: The Return of European Land Companies

Conclusion

Appendixes

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85135-7

9786612851353

0-7735-6201-X

OCLC:

243571101