Capitalists and Paupers: The Business of Canadian Land Companies and Settlers

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Author/collaborator
Title
Capitalists and Paupers: The Business of Canadian Land Companies and Settlers
Abstract
Compares the performance of two British land companies – the Canada Company and the British American Land Company – chartered to sell land and encourage immigration to Upper and Lower Canada respectively during the 1820s to the 1840s. The author contends that the British American Land Company failed in this endeavor in Lower Canada.
Type
PhD dissertation
University
Washington University in St. Louis
Place
St. Louis, MO
Date
1999
Language
en
Citation
Browde, Anatole. “Capitalists and Paupers: The Business of Canadian Land Companies and Settlers.” PhD dissertation, Washington University in St. Louis, 1999.
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