Through three centuries of development, the history of the Canadian economy reflects the shifting roles of natural resources, industrializations, and international trade. This ...

Excerpts from narratives of exploration of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, with editorial comment. Maps of selected routes.

Rural life in pre-industrial Quebec was essentially organized around a feudal society. Allan Greer takes a close look at the at society and its economy in three parishes in ...

Provides a series of in-depth biographical essays of the most important figures of the period, each written by a well-known specialist in the field.

A classic work of Canadian historical scholarship, first published in 1930. In his new introduction, A.J. Ray states that this book is argueably the most definitive economic ...