Some Price Indexes for Quebec and Montreal (1760-1913)

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Some Price Indexes for Quebec and Montreal (1760-1913)
Abstract
The authors argue that the study of price trends is of paramount importance to understand the socio-economies of the pre-industrial real income, real production, and real wealth for the century before Confederation. They study the price indexes for Quebec City and Montreal from 1761 to 1867. In the case of Quebec City, these indexes are drawn from the data for twenty products over 106 years, while for Montreal (where sources are more limited) they are based on data for ten products over 101 years. They extended the series of price indexes for Quebec to 1913 by splicing it with Humfrey Michell's price indexes for the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Publication
Histoire sociale / Social History
Volume
Vol. 31
Issue
no. 62
Pages
281-320
Date
November 1998
Language
en
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Notes

Humfrey Michell. “"Statistics of Prices." In Contributions to Canadian Economics, vol. 2. Toronto: Macmillan, 1931, p. 47–-101.

Citation
Paquet, Gilles, and Jean-Pierre Wallot. “Some Price Indexes for Quebec and Montreal (1760-1913).” Histoire sociale / Social History Vol. 31, no. 62 (November 1998): 281–320. http://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/4668/3862.
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