Geloso, Vincent; Plemmons, Alicia; Thomas, Andrew - 2022
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the wheat oriented agrarian economy of Lower Canada (the French …-speaking modern-day province of Quebec) saw a rapid collapse in wheat production dubbed the “wheat crisis.” In a single decade, Quebec … went from being an exporter of wheat to an importer. Given that Quebec was an agrarian economy, this collapse of wheat …
