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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Year-book and Almanac of British North America
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Flax Americana
Author: Joshua MacFadyen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773553967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded expanded paint markets. Flax Americana re-examines the changing relationships between farmers, urban consumers, and the land through a narrative of Canada's first and most important industrial crop. Initially a specialty crop grown by Mennonites and other communities on contracts for small-town mill complexes, flax became big business in the late nineteenth century as multinational linseed oil companies quickly displaced rural mills. Flax cultivation spread across the northern plains and prairies, particularly along the edges of dryland settlement, and then into similar ecosystems in South America's Pampas. Joshua MacFadyen's detailed examination of archival records reveals the complexity of a global commodity and its impact on the eastern Great Lakes and northern Great Plains. He demonstrates how international networks of scientists, businesses, and regulators attempted to predict and control the crop's frontier geography, how evolving consumer concerns about product quality and safety shaped the market and its regulations, and how the nature of each region encouraged some forms of business and limited others. The northern flax industry emerged because of border-crossing communities. By following the plant across countries and over time Flax Americana sheds new light on the ways that commodities, frontiers, and industrial capitalism shaped the modern world.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773553967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded expanded paint markets. Flax Americana re-examines the changing relationships between farmers, urban consumers, and the land through a narrative of Canada's first and most important industrial crop. Initially a specialty crop grown by Mennonites and other communities on contracts for small-town mill complexes, flax became big business in the late nineteenth century as multinational linseed oil companies quickly displaced rural mills. Flax cultivation spread across the northern plains and prairies, particularly along the edges of dryland settlement, and then into similar ecosystems in South America's Pampas. Joshua MacFadyen's detailed examination of archival records reveals the complexity of a global commodity and its impact on the eastern Great Lakes and northern Great Plains. He demonstrates how international networks of scientists, businesses, and regulators attempted to predict and control the crop's frontier geography, how evolving consumer concerns about product quality and safety shaped the market and its regulations, and how the nature of each region encouraged some forms of business and limited others. The northern flax industry emerged because of border-crossing communities. By following the plant across countries and over time Flax Americana sheds new light on the ways that commodities, frontiers, and industrial capitalism shaped the modern world.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique Du Canada
Author: Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780802034601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780802034601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Catalogue of the Public Archives Library
Author: Public Archives of Canada. Library
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Ontario History
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Category : Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Vols. 29- include the society's Report, 1931/32- except 1938/39-1939/40 which were issued separately.
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Category : Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Vols. 29- include the society's Report, 1931/32- except 1938/39-1939/40 which were issued separately.
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History
Author: Association of American Law Schools
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Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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British Books
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Author: Bibliographical Society of Canada
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Coal Question; an Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines
Author: William Stanley Jevons
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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