Farm Settlement on the Canadian Prairies, 1898 to 1911

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4847698
AutoresFrank D Lewis (Queen's University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1981
Volumen41
Número3
Páginas517-535
Fecha de publicación1981-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022050700044314
OpenAlexW2014115791
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas12

This paper offers a new interpretation of Canadian Prairie settlement during the "wheat boom" period. Rather than use a Nerlovian model on which most recent work has been based, I develop a method of simulating the extension of the feasible region of cultivation: the area on which farming is profitable. The model is applied to a wheat-growing district of Saskatchewan that experienced rapid settlement from 1898 to 1911. Comparisons of the actual area of cultivation with the simulated feasible region indicate that settlers responded quickly to changes in the profitability of wheat farming. I also find that the extension of rail lines and the increase in mean wheat yields accounts for nearly all of the increase in the feasible region

Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Boom · Economics · Geography · Interpretation (philosophy) · Profitability index · Settlement (finance) · Work (physics) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Canadian Identity and History · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Engineering · Environmental Science · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies