HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Industrial Revolution, United States, Responsible Government
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Canada even though still consisting of colonies begins to get into the canal business, similar to the erie canal, more serious is the welling canal. The old assumptions about contact and communication are over turned, the industrial revolution is working its way across the atlantic and also beginning to appear autonomously along this part of the atlantic. You cant have a city of any size without reliable food supply and that is not possible without relying on some sort of transportation (wagons, and horses) British politics; reform act; parliament is not more populary elected. Canada was producing wheat when the british came up with the corn laws. There is a beginning of a wheat economy which is guaranteed befause they can ship the produce to the british who will buy it because it is subsidized while the european wheat was shunned.
