The Upper Canada Trade 1834-1872: A Study of the Buchanans' Business

by Douglas McCalla

Based in Glasgow and Toronto and later Hamilton, the trading business of Peter and Isaac Buchanan became one of Canada's largest. The crash of 1857, which abruptly ended an Upper Canadian boom, brought its growth to a halt, and increasing financial problems led to its failure in 1867 and gain in 1872. This history of success and failure reveals much about the Anglo-Canadian trading system and the Upper Canadian economy of the period.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487578687
• ISBN13: 9781487578688
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher