Main entry:

Bellan, Ruben C., 1918-

Title & Author:

Winnipeg, first century : an economic history / Ruben Bellan.

Publication:

Winnipeg, Man. : Queenston House Pub. Co., ©1978.

Description:

270 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origin of the city -- Coming of the Canadian Pacific Railway -- The Real Estate boom of 1881-82 and its aftermath -- The founding of a metropolitan economy 1886-95 -- Rapid expansion 1896-1906 -- Recession 1907-08 -- The building boom 1909-12 -- Recession 1913-14 -- The World War I period 1914-24 -- The prosperous Twenties 1925-29 -- The onset of depression 1929-33 -- Progress toward recovery 1933-39 -- The Second World War -- Modernization and renewal -- Conclusion.

Summary:

The story of the origin of Winnipeg and its economic development up to the 1970's is a story worth telling: especially in the half century before the Second World War the city was a microcosm whose fortunes reflected the historic forces which shaped the course of events in the western world. During those five decades Winnipeg was the metropolitan centre of the agricultural economy, based primarily on wheat, that emerged from the plains of Western Canada just before this century began. As with any metropolitan centre, its fortunes reflected the vicissitudes of its hinterland. That hinterland, the Prairie Wheat Economy, drew its people from the excess population of Europe and the ambitious land seekers of America, obtained its capital from the advanced industrial nations of Europe, and depended for its markets upon their white-bread eating populations. At one remove, therefore, what happened in Winnipeg reflected the population growth and movement, the technological advances, the progress in living standards, and the alternations of peace and war, prosperity and depression, which characterized the trans-Atlantic economy of Europe and America. The city's economy underwent a major transformation following the Second World War. Prairie agriculture became highly mechanized, new resource -based industries were developed in the West and North, the march of technology threw up new industries and threw out old ones, and the economic role of government increased enormously.

ISBN:

0919866344
9780919866348
0919866352
9780919866355

Subject:

Economic history
Winnipeg (Man.) Economic conditions.
Winnipeg (Man.) History.
Winnipeg (Man.) Histoire.
Winnipeg (Man.) Conditions économiques.
Manitoba Winnipeg

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 10013
Call No.: ID CAN; ID:87-B2498
Status: Available