Course Syllabus - Fall 2002/03

McCalla, Douglas and Michael Huberman, eds. 1994. Perspectives on Canadian Economic History, Second Edition. Mississauga, Ont.: Copp Clark Longman Ltd.

McCalla, Douglas, ed. 1987. Perspectives onCanadian Economic History, Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman.

Marr, William L. and Donald G. Paterson. 1980. Canada: an Economic History. Toronto: Gage Publishing.

Watkins, M.H. and H.M. Grant, eds. 1993. Canadian Economic History: Classic and Contemporary Approaches. Ottawa: Carleton University Press.

Term Assignments     30%    October 30; November 27
Midterm Exam            20%     Wednesday, October 16 (in class)
Final Exam                  50%     scheduled by exams office

There is one two-hour lecture/discussion class per week and an occasional one-hour tutorial to be announced. Your attendance is appreciated. Tutorial periods will be used to discuss your essay and take up exams, as well as discuss issues of concern. The tutorial schedule will also be posted to the class webpage.

There will be two writing assignments, the first due Wednesday October 30; the second due Wednesday November 27. Instructions will be handed out and posted to the web. Each will be a short essay. Assignments will be discussed during tutorials. Needless to say, all assignments must be in by their due dates, unless accompanied by a documented excuse.

Atack, Jeremy and Peter Passell, 1994. A New Economic View of American History, Second Edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., Ch. 1.

Lewis, Frank D. 2001. "Farm Settlement with Imperfect Capital Markets: A Life-Cycle Application to Upper Canada, 1826-1851," Canadian Journal of Economics 34: 174-95.

Lewis, Frank D., and M.C. Urquhart. 1999. "Growth and the Standard of Living in a Pioneer Economy: Upper Canada, 1826-1851," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series LVI: 151-81.

Mancall, Peter C. and Thomas Weiss, 1999. "Was Economic Growth Likely in Colonial British North America?" J.E.H. 59: 17-40.

Marr and Paterson, p. 18-21 (and skim 21-41).

McCusker, John J. and Russell R. Menard. 1985. The Economy of British America, 1607-1789. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Chapter 3.

Pomfret, p. 51-6.

Rosenberg, Nathan and L.E. Birdzell, Jr. 1986. How The West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World. New York: Basic Books, Inc. Ch. 1, 10.

Thomas, Robert Paul. 1965. "A Quantitative Approach to the Study of the Effects of British Imperial Policy on Colonial Welfare," J.E.H. 25 : 615-38.

-----. 1984. "The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis," J.E.H. 44: 1-26.

Grubb, Farley. 1986. "Redemptioner Immigration to Pennsylvania: Evidence on Contract Choice and Profitability," J.E.H. 46: 407-18.

-----. 1994. "The End of European Immigration Servitude in the United States: An Economic Analysis of Market Collapse," 1772-1835," J.E.H. 54: 794-824.

-----. 2000. "The Statutory Regulation of Colonial Servitude: An Incomplete Contract Approach," E.E.H. 37: 42-75.

Hamilton, Gillian. 1996. "The Market for Montreal Apprentices: Contract Length and Information," E.E.H. 33: 496-523.

-----. 1995. "Enforcement in Apprenticeship Contracts: Were Runaways a Serious Problem? Evidence from Montreal, 1791-1820." J.E.H. 55: 551-74.

-----. 2000. "The Decline of Apprenticeship in North America: Evidence From Montreal," J.E.H. 60(3): 627-64.

Lewis, Frank D. 2001. "Farm Settlement with Imperfect Capital Markets: A Life-Cycle Application to Upper Canada, 1826-1851," Canadian Journal of Economics 34: 174-95.

Marr and Paterson, p. 42-8; 52-61.

Carlos, Ann. 1981. "The Causes and Origins of the North American Fur Trade Rivalry: 1804-1810," J.E.H. 41: 777-94.

-----. 1982. "The Birth and Death of Predatory Competition in the North American Fur Trade: 1810-1821," E.E.H. 19: 156-83.

-----. and Elizabeth Hoffman. 1986. "The North American Fur Trade: Bargaining to a Joint Profit Maximization under Incomplete Information, 1804-1821," J.E.H. 46: 967-86. Reprinted in McCalla and Huberman. [HC 113 .P47 1994]

Carlos, Ann and Frank D. Lewis. 1993. "Indians, the Beaver and the Bay: The Economics of Depletion in the Lands of the Hudson's Bay Company 1700-1763," J.E.H. 53: 465-94. Reprinted in McCalla and Huberman. [HC 113 .P47 1994]

-----. 1999. "Property Rights, Competition and Depletion in the Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade: The Role of the European Market," C.J.E. 32: 705-28. [RACS 5903]

-----. 2001. "Trade, Consumption, and the Native Economy: Lessons from York Factory, Hudson Bay," J.E.H. 61: 1037-64.

Lewis, Frank D. and R. Marvin McInnis. 1980. "The Efficiency of the French-Canadian Farmer in the Nineteenth Century," J.E.H. 40: 497-514. Also Reprinted in Watkins and Grant.

McCalla, Douglas. 1985. "The Internal Economy of Upper Canada: New Evidence on Agricultural Marketing Before 1850," Agricultural History 59: 397-416.

McInnis, R. Marvin. 1992. "The Early Ontario Wheat Staple Reconsidered." Reprinted in R. Marvin McInnis, Perspectives on Ontario Agriculture 1815-1930. Gananoque, Ontario: Langdale Press, p. 17-48.

-----. 1982. "A Reconsideration of the State of Agriculture in Lower Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," Canadian Papers in Rural History 3: 9-49.

Marr, William. 1992. "Micro and Macro Land Availability as a Determinant of Human fertility in Rural Canada West, 1851," Social Science History, 16, 583-90.

McInnis, Marvin. 1991. "Women, Work and Childbearing: Ontario in the Second Half of the 19th Century, Historie Sociale-Social History, 24: 237-62.

Pomfret, ch. 5. HC 113 .P65

Officer, Lawrence H. and Lawrence B. Smith. 1968. "The Canadian-American Reciprocity Treaty of 1855 to 1866," J.E.H. 28: 598-623. [RACO 1086]

Ankli, Robert E. 1971. "The Reciprocity Treaty of 1854," C.J.E. 4: 1-20. [RACO-1087]

Barnett, D.F. 1976. "The Galt Tariff: Incidental or Effective Protection," C.J.E. 9: 389-407. [RACO 1088]

Pomfret, ch. 6. [HC 113 .P65]

Atack, Jeremy and Peter Passell. 1994. A New Economic View of American History, Second Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, ch. 6, 16. [HC 103 .L34]

McIlwraith, T. 1976. "Freight Capacity and Utilization of the Erie and Great Lakes Canals before 1850," J.E.H. 36: 852-75. [RACO 1089]

Carlos, Ann and Frank D. Lewis. 1992. "The Profitability of Early Canadian Railroads." In Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff, eds., Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. [HD 5724 .S734 1992]

Pomfret, R. 1976. "The Mechanization of Reaping in Nineteenth Century Ontario," J.E.H. 36: 399-415. [RACR-9082]

Green, A. 1986. "Growth and Productivity Change in the Canadian Railway Sector, 1871-1926." In S.L.Engerman and R.E. Gallman, eds., NBER Studies in Income and Wealth vol. 51: Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press. p. 779-812. [RACR-8324]

Lew, Byron. 2000. "The Diffusion of Tractors on the Canadian Prairies: The Threshold Model and the Problem of Uncertainty," E.E.H. 37: 189-216. [RACS-5900]

Pomfret, ch. 8. [HC 113 .P65]

Chambers, Edward J. and Donald F. Gordon. 1966. "Primary Products and Economic Growth: An Empirical Measurement," Journal of Political Economy 74: 315-32. Reprinted in McCalla Perspectives on Canadian Economic History [HC 113 .P47 1987]

Green, Alan G. and M.C. Urquhart. 1994. "New Estimates of Output Growth in Canada: Measurement and Interpretation." In McCalla and Huberman, p. 156-75. [HC 113 .P47 1994]

Lewis, Frank D. 1981. "Farm Settlement on the Canadian Prairies, 1898-1911," J.E.H. 41: 517-35. [RACO-2827]

-----, and David Robinson. 1984. "The Timing of Railway Construction on the Canadian Prairies," C.J.E. 17: 340-52. [RACO-2828]

Norrie, Kenneth H. 1975. "The Rate of Settlement of the Canadian Prairies, 1870-1911," J.E.H. 35: 410-27. Reprinted in McCalla Perspectives on Canadian Economic History [HC 113 .P47 1987]

Pomfret, ch. 8. [HC 113 .P65]

George, Peter J. 1968. "Rates of Return to Railway Investment in Canada and Implications for Government Subsidization of the C.P.R.: Some Preliminary Results," C.J.E. 1: 740-62. Reprinted in McCalla Perspectives on Canadian Economic History [HC 113 .P47]

-----. 1975. ",Rates of Return and Government Subsdization of the Canadian Pacific Railway: Some Further Comments," C.J.E. 8: 591-600.

Emery, J.C. Herbert and Kenneth J. McKenzie. 1996. "Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't: An Option Value Approach to Evaluating the Subsidy of the CPR Mainline," C.J.E. 29: 255-70.

Lewis, Frank D. and Mary MacKinnon. 1987. "Government Loan Guarantees and the Failure of the Canadian Northern Railway," J.E.H. 47: 175-96. [RACO-1090]

Mercer, Lloyd J. 1973. "Rates of Return and Government Subsidization of the C.P.R.: An Alternative View," C.J.E. 6: 428-37. [RACO-2829]

Norrie, Kenneth H. 1974. "Agricultural Implement Tariffs, the National Policy, and Income Distribution in the Wheat Economy," C.J.E. 7: 449-62. [ACO-2824]

Pomfret, ch. 7. [HC 113 .P65]

Beaulieu, Eugene and J.C. Herbert Emery. 2001. "Pork Packers, Reciprocity, and Laurier's Defeat in the 1911 Canadian General Election," J.E.H. 61: 1083-1101.

Caves, Richard E. 1976. "Economic Models of Political Choice: Canada's Tariff Structure," C.J.E.9: 278-300. [RACO-1091]

Keay, Ian. 2000. "Scapegoats or Responsive Entrepreneurs: Canadian Manufacturers, 1907-1990," E.E.H. 37: 217-40.

Percy, Michael B., Kenneth H. Norrie and R.G. Johnston. 1982. "Reciprocity and the Canadian General Election of 1911," E.E.H. 19: 409-34. [RACO-2825]

Williams, Glen. 1979. "The National Policy Tariffs: Industrial Development Through Import Substitution," Canadian Journal of Political Science 30: [RACR-8326]

Wylie, Peter. 1989. "Technological Adaptation in Canadian Manufacturing, 1900-1929," J.E.H. 49: 569-91. [RACO-2823]

Allen, Douglas W. 1991. "Homesteading and Property Rights; Or, How the West Was Really Won," Journal of Law and Economics 34: 1-23.

Green, Alan G. and David Green. 1993. "Balanced Growth and the Geographical Distribution of European Immigration Arrivals to Canada, 1900-1912," E.E.H. 30: 31-59.

Green, Alan G. and Gordon R. Sparks. 1999. "Population Growth and the Dynamics of Canadian Development: A Multivariate Time Series Approach," E.E.H. 36: 56-71.

McInnis, M. 1994. "Immigration and Emigration: Canada in the Late Nineteenth Century." In Timothy J Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds. Migration and the International Labour Market, 1850-1939. London: Routledge. p. 139-55. [RACR-8325]