In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and N

Craig examines and describes the local economy of the Madawaska Territory from its origins in the native fur trade, the growth of exportable wheat, the selling

General stores are essential to the image of a colonial village. Many historians, however, still base their stories of settlement on the notion of rural self-su

The complex relationship between subsistence practices and formal markets should be a growing matter of concern for those uneasy with the stark contrast between

In the two centuries before the Quiet Revolution, the people of Quebec exercised a higher degree of independence from the Catholic Church than is often presumed