How agriculture made Canada : farming in the nineteenth century / Peter A. Russell.

• Nineteenth-century farm families needed land for the next generation. Their quest shaped agricultural settlement across Canada. This overview of rural history in Quebec, Ontario, and the Prairies provides a new perspective on the ways in which agriculture and the family farm were central to the country's expansion and essential to understanding social, political, and economic changes.-- 
• How Agriculture Made Canada shows how differences between the agricultural development of Quebec and that of Ontario had a decisive influence on the settlement of the Prairies. Peter Russell demonstrates that farming families eventually ran out of land against the edges of the St Lawrence lowlands. While Quebec-based habitants reached their region's limits earlier, Ontario encouraged people to migrate west. Russell argues that the thousands of relocated Ontario farmers changed Manitoba's bilingual openness to an exclusively English-speaking province that then assimilated East European arrivals. Thus, if not for the agricultural crises in the Canadas, Manitoba might have been at least as francophone as anglophone.-- 

Ämnesord

Agriculture and state  -- Canada -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Agriculture  -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Agriculture  -- Economic aspects -- Canada -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Agriculture  -- Canada -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Agriculture  -- Aspect économique -- Canada -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Jordbruk  -- historia -- Kanada -- 1800-talet (sao)

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