HIS263Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Lower Canada, Surplus Labour
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The transition out of a subsistence-oriented farming economy into a commercialized agricultural sector was more complex in lower canada than elsewhere in british north. The growth of the timber economy provided an outlet for surplus labour and a market for farm products. Constraint in the farming sector was a catalyst for migration to cities and towns and to new. Out migration to new england and the movement off the land into the towns of. The upper canadian economy was based on a combination of wheat farming and land sales, which had a reciprocal relationship. The wheat economy was highly vulnerable to changes in the trade environment with britain, and this was beyond the control of the colonials. Trade was made more complex by the corn laws which were protective tariffs put in place as part of the merchant system that channeled the colonial products to imperial ports and limited colonial imports from non- imperial sources.
