Ash to Cash – The Untold Story Nature’s Burnt Offering to 19th Century Settlers
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Ash to Cash – The Untold Story Nature’s Burnt Offering to 19th Century Settlers
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Abstract |
From the 1820s, English-speaking immigrants to rural Lower Canada supplemented their financial resources by becoming involved in the wood-ashes potash industry. The Eastern Townships and the Ottawa Valley became the most significant potash producing regions in North America in the early nineteenth century.
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Histoire Québec
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Vol. 18
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no. 3
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2013
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25-30
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en
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Létourneau, Georges, and Jay Sames. “Ash to Cash – The Untold Story Nature’s Burnt Offering to 19th Century Settlers.” Histoire Québec, 2013. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/hq/2013-v18-n3-hq0536/68966ac.pdf.
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