Economic Dislocation and Resiliency on Prince Edward Island: Small Producer, Distant Markets

In some ways the story of post-Confederation Prince Edward Island can be told as a search to find a replacement for the Island’s shipbuilding industry. For much of the nineteenth century, the export of locally constructed wooden sailing ships underpinned the colonial economy, providing widespread em...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edward MacDonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UCL Press 2016-01-01
Series:The London Journal of Canadian Studies
Online Access:https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2016v31.003