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Réflexions autour de deux pichets commémoratifs découverts sur le site du parlement à Montréal et l’abolition des Corn Laws en 1846
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Réflexions autour de deux pichets commémoratifs découverts sur le site du parlement à Montréal et l’abolition des Corn Laws en 1846
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The author notes that the repeal of the Corn Laws by Great Britain in 1846 struck a hard blow against the Province of Canada’s economy, impacting merchants and grain producers who benefitted from these protectionist laws through preferential tariffs in the cereal trade. It also led to the creation in 1849 of the short-lived Annexationist Movement by many of Montreal's English-speaking merchants. It is in this context that two small ceramic pitchers commemorating the abolition of the Corn Laws at Westminster ended up at the Parliament that was located in Montreal between 1844 and 1849. The author explains that the discovery of these jugs in 2017 by a team of archaeologists under the direction of Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal’s archaeology and history complex, provides an opportunity to revisit this foundational moment in Canadian political and economic history. The pitchers evoke the role played by the British Anti-Corn Law League under the leadership of Richard Cobden. The author underlines the influence that the League and its popular marketing methods had on a Montreal merchant association, which can perhaps explain the presence of these pitchers at the Canadian Parliament in Montreal.
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Les Cahiers des Dix
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No. 74
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101-134
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2020
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fr
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Pothier, Louise. “Réflexions autour de deux pichets commémoratifs découverts sur le site du parlement à Montréal et l’abolition des Corn Laws en 1846.” Les Cahiers des Dix No. 74 (2020): 101–134. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/cdd/2020-n74-cdd06065/1077576ar/.
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