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Public Policy and Private Interests in the Lumber Industry of the Eastern Townships: The Case of C.S. Clark and Company, 1854-1881
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Public Policy and Private Interests in the Lumber Industry of the Eastern Townships: The Case of C.S. Clark and Company, 1854-1881
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| Abstract |
A study of Portland, Maine entrepreneur Cyrus S. Clark and his Quebec partner, John Henry Pope (1819-1889). Because the government saw forests as obstacles to agricultural expansion, Clark and Pope were able to acquire nearly all the crown timber berths in the Upper St. Francis drainage basin. The result was years of conflict with local French Canadians whose livelihood depended upon ready access to the forest resources. The author points out that while government on the one hand actively promoted the colonization movement, on the other it failed to restrain the monopolist C.S. Clark Company even though it provided only minimal revenues to the public treasury. Clark and Pope owned the Brompton Mills Lumber Company which operated large sawmills at Brompton Falls (Bromptonville) in the eastern part of Compton County.
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Histoire sociale/Social History
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Vol. 19
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no. 37
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9-37
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1986
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en
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Little, J. I. “Public Policy and Private Interests in the Lumber Industry of the Eastern Townships: The Case of C.S. Clark and Company, 1854-1881.” Histoire sociale/Social History Vol. 19, no. 37 (1986): 9–37. http://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/37730.
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