of wheat to the controversial dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board. When Wheat Was King reveals how farmers …, and international politics have influenced agriculture and food industries in Canada, the UK, and around the world."-- …

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 …