Potash from Wood Ashes: Frontier Technology in Canada and the United States
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Potash from Wood Ashes: Frontier Technology in Canada and the United States
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| Abstract |
Recounts how, from the 1820s, English-speaking immigrants to rural Lower Canada supplemented their financial resources by becoming involved in the wood-ashes potash industry. The Ottawa Valley and the Eastern Townships became the most significant potash producing regions in North America in the early nineteenth century.
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Technology and Culture
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Vol. 21
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no. 2
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187-208
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April 1980
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| Language |
en
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| Citation |
Miller, Harry. “Potash from Wood Ashes: Frontier Technology in Canada and the United States.” Technology and Culture Vol. 21, no. 2 (April 1980): 187–208.
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