The role of exports in the economic development of Canada, 1868-1914.

• Main Author: Moldofsky, Naomi.
• Other Authors: Asimakopulos, A. (Supervisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 1963
• Subjects: Economics.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115186

Historically, many countries in the course of their development, have gone through a stage of staple production. In Canada, geographic and economic factors appear to have encouraged regionalism, explaining perhaps the linkage of Canadian history to a variety of staple industries and their affects upon some of the country's major political, social and economic institutions. With a regional economy being only a modest part of an international economy, transportation and communication facilities tend to become important pre-requisites to prosperity. While the particular region's staple production is expanding and is successfully integrating the region with the larger economy of which it is a part, economic growth will proceed.