By Guy Gaudreau

Focusing at the transition from the creation of squared bushes to that of milled lumber and, ultimately, wooden pulp, Gaudreau strains the consistent depletion of the source and the corporations' ensuing, inexorable push westward from Quebec into Ontario - an financial migration that resulted in the institution of vital francophone groups throughout northern Ontario. He exhibits how fresh generations of Quebec historians have didn't supply sufficient old factors as a result of an excessively unique specialize in Quebec. Gaudreau's paintings presents an incredible historiographic corrective, exhibiting that the background of Quebec is a part of a fancy cloth that, just like the forests themselves, doesn't realize provincial barriers. distinct annual info at the quantity of relevant woodland items made out of Crown lands in Quebec and Ontario in the course of the moment half the 19th century compiled systematically for the 1st time shape the spine of this research. in keeping with those info Gaudreau describes and clarifies the timing, scale, and importance of transitions in woodland outputs as spruce joined pine because the valuable form of wooden logged and as milled lumber and for that reason pulp wooden joined, and finally changed, sq. trees because the key product. The e-book addresses the results of source depletion and the industrial and ancient adjustments within the forestry undefined, together with the transition from a advertisement and artisanal strategy to an business strategy and the results this had for colonization and migration.

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C'est pourquoi il nous paraît fondamental de bien identifier les périodes de mutation du secteur forestier. Définissons, à titre d'hypothèse, trois périodes au cours desquelles la contradiction dont nous parlons s'est manifestée avec une acuité particulière: i) les décennies de 1850 et de 1860, où l'on passe du bois équarri au bois de sciage, 2) le tournant du XXe siècle, avec l'arrivée du bois à pâte, et 3) les trente dernières années de ce siècle, durant lesquelles on a assisté à la montée de la conscience écologiste et du réveil des régions, qui entraînent le réaménagement du système des permis de coupe et une plus grande accessibilité des forêts pour tous les citoyens.

Little, Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth Century Québec. The Upper St Francis District, Kingston, Montréal et London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989, 306 p. 18 Normand Séguin, La conquête du sol, Montréal, Boréal Express, 1977 et « L'économie agro-forestière : genèse du développement au Saguenay au vf siècle », Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, vol. 29, n° 4 (mars 1976) : 559-565. , Montréal, Boréal Express, 1980, p. 181-197. 19 Alfred Dubuc avait, dès 1973, publié un article dans ce sens («Les inégalités économiques », Le Devoir, 2 et 3 mars 1973).

Les entrepreneurs forestiers assurent aux hommes politiques d'importantes recettes grâce au paiement de redevances de toutes sortes. Mais le système des concessions bloque l'accès du domaine public aux petits producteurs et entrepreneurs moins nantis. À court terme, la reconnaissance par l'État d'une appropriation privée de la ressource suffisait : l'essentiel était d'exercer une mainmise sur la ressource, mainmise garantie par l'État. Certes ces précisions sont théoriques. Dans la pratique, il demeure difficile de limiter le colon à la valeur d'usage des forêts.

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