MARTIN, PAUL-LOUIS. Les Fruits du Québec. Histoire et traditions des douceurs de la table. Sillery, Les Éditions du Septentrion, 2002, 219 p. ISBN 2-89448-339-2

Desloges, Yvon

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“…This leaves the third category, which argues that geographical features pertaining to farmland are of central relevance (Desloges, 2016; Faucher, 1973; Harris, 2009; Kerr & Smyth, 1980; McCallum, 1980; Russell, 2012). In most of Canada, suitable farmlands are concentrated along the American border, such as in the Ontario peninsula surrounded by Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario (Harris, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Third, the claim that geography explains Quebec's relative poverty is a recurrent theme among economic historians. Canadian historians have argued that early differences in economic development due to land endowments mattered heavily in the constitutional negotiations that led to the formation of Canada as a dominion in 1867 (Desloges, 2016; Faucher, 1973; Harris, 2009; Kerr & Smyth, 1980; McCallum, 1980; Russell, 2012). The outcomes of these negotiations are argued to have placed Quebec on a slower growth path than the rest of Canada.…”

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Can geography explain Quebec's historical poverty?

Geloso,

Rouanet

2023

Southern Economic Journal

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From the 19th century to the 1940s, Quebec remained poorer and less economically developed than the rest of Canada in general, and than Ontario in particular. This placed Quebec at the bottom of North American rankings of living standards. One prominent hypothesis for the initiation of this gap is tied to disparities in agricultural land quality. We formally test this hypothesis using newly available data for the mid‐19th century and find it holds little explanatory power. We further argue that poor institutions in Quebec, notably seigneurial tenure, were at the root of the development gap and that the effect of land quality on living standards was institutionally contingent.

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confidence: 99%