International Circumstances of Lower Canada, 1786–1810: Prolegomenon

Paquet, Gilles

doi:10.3138/chr-053-04-01

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“…Very little of the exports of grain and its by-products went to Britain between 1760 and 1775. After the American Revolutionary War, the grain trade of Lower Canada with Britain gained in importance while it faltered with the US (Paquet and Wallot 1967, 1972). However, this coincided with the tightening of the Corn Laws which explains the pattern in Figure 3.…”

Section: Canada In the North Atlantic Wheat Tradementioning

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Globalization and Empire: Market Integration and International Trade among Canada, the US, and Britain, 1750–1870

Pedersen,

Geloso,

Sharp

2023

Soc. sci. hist.

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Wheat market integration between the US and the UK before the “first era of globalization” (in the second half of the nineteenth century) was frequently interrupted by policy and “exogenous” events such as wars. This paper adds Canada to this story by looking at trade and price data, as well as contemporary debates. This allows us to triangulate the role of policy and wars, since Canada as a small open economy was part of the British Empire. We find that, despite its privileged access to British markets, Canada faced similar barriers to the US, suggesting that membership of the British Empire provided only a modest benefit to trade. We also describe the limitations she faced accessing the US market, in particular after American independence.

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Section: Canada In the North Atlantic Wheat Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization and Empire: Market Integration and International Trade among Canada, the US, and Britain, 1750–1870

Pedersen,

Geloso,

Sharp

2023

Soc. sci. hist.

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“…À l'explication "culturaliste" d'un de nos grands historiens, qui lie cette crise à une mentalité d'Ancien Régime, à la mentalité non-commerciale, ou pré-commerciale, d'un paysan fondamentalement conservateur et opiniâtre dans ses routines ancestrales [Ouellet 1966], s'oppose l'explication économiste de G. Paquet et J.-P. Wallot. Selon eux, le tournant du XIXe siècle canadien aurait été marqué par une commercialisation généralisée de l'économie, à laquelle le producteur agricole aurait pleinement participé [Paquet & Wallot 1971, 1972. Agent économique, celui-ci aurait vu, comme tel, ses décisions soumises aux coûts des transactions et aux coûts d'accès au capital ; c'est pourquoi ce paysan doté d'une rationalité commerciale aurait en fait privilégié "le capital foncier et le patrimoine dans son programme économique" [Ibid.…”

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