HIS3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Stellarton

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS3103
• Professor: Peter Rider

Document Summary

3 parts: tarif protecion for home market, railways, to foster domesic commerce, immigraion, more people equals bigger economy. During this the briish were moving to free trade. Policy was a blessing in the mariimes: railways were already built in mariimes, of course this was expanded with the intercolonial railway, railway construcion brought change of role for government, the government were more involved in economy now. Immigraion bad, the mariimes were the oldest part of confederaion and all the good land was taken, wouldn"t take land in mariimes if they could get beter lands out west. Industrializaion, a lot of labour required was simply internal migraions, move from farm to city. Already made a good start in the progress of industrializaions, pools of capital looking for new ways to invest, natural resources available (coal and iron ore reserves)