The American Morrill tariff of 1861 was a response to the same economic downturn, and the Civil War forced yet further tariff increases/' The system of high protection that resulted was not abandoned in the aftermath of the struggle, and partly in a retaliatory attempt to force her way into the American market, Canada raised her customs duties in 1870. [...] While the decline in the square-timber trade injured shipping and shipbuilding in Quebec, there was a growing demand in the American market for sawn lumber and domestically for the products of lumber mills, furniture factories, and the like.23 The industry encouraged the construction of railways also, and some lumbermen rapidly ac- cumulated capital. [...] The emphasis on efficient factory production was apparent even in the layout of the Toronto Rolling Mills, which by 1866 employed more than 300 men, and in the growing dependence on machinery in the factory production of boots and shoes in the city.28 If railways aided in the concentration of industry, they also directly stimulated manufacturing. [...] The second step was taken in 1846, with the repeal of the Corn Laws, the associated removal of the British preferences on colonial grain by 1849, the drastic reduction of the preferences on timber, and the amendment of the British Possessions Act to give the colonies control over what had been the imperial tariff. [...] The expanding Upper Canadian farming frontier increased its productivity rapidly, and the de- 16 A conjunction of interests cline of wheat production in Lower Canada enlarged these markets.6 However, a considerable exportable surplus existed from the War of 1812 to the crisis years of the mid 18305: the surplus was sold to the Maritimes, the United States (despite the high American customs duty of
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- TABLES 8
- PREFACE 10
- Introduction 14
- 1 Protection in an era of colonial transition, 1825–1854 24
- 2 Continuity and change: making tariffs in the late 1850s 44
- 3 Larger markets, 1860–1866: reciprocity and Confederation 63
- 4 From a conciliatory to a national policy, 1867–1872 79
- 5 'The obscurity of private enterprise': business and the economy, 1870–1879 97
- 6 'An age of combination and association,' 1870–1879 121
- 7 The Liberal interregnum, 1874–1876 138
- 8 The Liberal interregnum, 1876–1878 158
- 9 The interests, the parties, and the election of 1878 176
- 10 'Reconciling a legion of conflicting interests' 193
- Conclusion 212
- NOTES 218
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 270
- INDEX 288
- A 288
- B 289
- C 290
- D 291
- E 291
- F 291
- G 292
- H 292
- I 293
- J 293
- K 293
- L 293
- M 294
- N 295
- O 295
- P 296
- Q 296
- R 297
- S 297
- T 298
- U 298
- W 299
- Y 299
- Z 299
