In the Power of the Government: The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932

Kuhlberg, Mark

ISBN 10: 1442614536 / ISBN 13: 9781442614536

Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2015

About this Item

xv, 404pp., index, biblio., infernal endnotes, maps, figures, ill.

Seller Inventory # 012586

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Power of the Government: The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442614536
• ISBN 13: 9781442614536
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Northern Ontario
  • Business and Economics
  • Ontario

About this title

Synopsis

For forty years, historians have argued that early twentieth-century provincial governments in Canada were easily manipulated by the industrialists who developed Canada’s natural resources, such as pulpwood, water power, and minerals. With In the Power of the Government, Mark Kuhlberg uses the case of the Ontario pulp and paper industry to challenge that interpretation of Canadian provincial politics.

Examining the relationship between the corporations which ran the province’s pulp and paper mills and the politicians at Queen’s Park, Kuhlberg concludes that the Ontario government frequently rebuffed the demands of the industrialists who wanted to tap Ontario’s spruce timber and hydro-electric potential. A sophisticated empirical challenge to the orthodox literature on this issue, In the Power of the Government will be essential reading for historians and political scientists interested in the history of Canadian industrial development.

About the Author

Mark Kuhlberg is a professor and MA Coordinator in the Department of History at Laurentian University and is a leading authority on Canada’s forest history.