Potash from Wood Ashes: Frontier Technology in Canada and the United States

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Title
Potash from Wood Ashes: Frontier Technology in Canada and the United States
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.
Publication
Technology and Culture
Volume
Vol. 21
Issue
no. 2
Pages
187-208
Date
April 1980
Language
en
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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