Altman, M., "Seigniorial Tenure in New France, 1688-1739: An Essay on Income Distribution and Retarded Economic Development," Historical Reflections/Réflections historiques, 10, Fall, 1983, 335-75. Utilizes census material to examine the reasons for slow economic growth in New France. Unlike earlier authorities on the subject the author concludes that the seigniorial system was probably partly to blame because it altered the distribution of income which in turn changed the pattern of investment and kept the level of total output lower than it otherwise could have been. The findings are somewhat modified in a subsequent "Note on the Economic Burden of the Seigniorial System in New France, 1688-1739", same journal, 14, Spring 1987, 135-42. The latter draws upon new estimates made by the author of real GDP for New France over the period 1695-1739 which put in doubt the traditional view of the colony's relatively poor economic performance
Armstrong, R., Structure and Change: An Economic History of Quebec, Toronto, Gage, 1984.
Biggar, H.P., The Early Trading Companies of New France, New York, Argonaut Press, 1965.
Bosher, J.F., "A Quebec Merchant's Trading Circles in France and Canada: Jean-Andre Lamaletie before 1763," Histoire Sociale--Social History, May 1977.
Cole, C.W., Colbert and a Century of French Mercantilism, revised edition, 2 vols., Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books, 1964.
Desbarats, Catherine, "Agriculture within the Seigneurial Regime of Eighteenth-Century Canada: Some Thoughts on the Recent Literature", Canadian Historical Review, v. 73, no. 1, p.1.
Dickason, O.P., The Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas, Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 1983.
Eccles, W.J., " A Belated Review of Harold Adam Innis’, The Fur Trade in Canada," Canadian Historical Review, 60, December 1979, 419-41. A critical retrospective review of the classic charging Innis with economic determinism, and with exaggerating the importance of the fur trade in New France and in North America. See H.M. Grant's reply.
Eccles, W.J., "New France and the Western Frontier," Alberta Historical Review, 17, 1969, 23-31. A sympathetic study of the life of the voyageurs and their role in the opening of western Canada. Comments on the relationship between the French and the native Indians and contrasts this with the American experience.
Eccles, W.J., Canada under Louis XIV, 1663-1701, Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1964.
Eccles, W.J., The Canadian Frontier 1534-1760, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. (Revised edition, 1983.)
Grant, H.M., "One Step Forward Two Steps Back: Innis, Eccles and the Canadian Fur Trade," Canadian Historical Review, 62, September 1981, 304-22. A reply to Eccles (1979) defending Innis against the charge of "extreme determinism" and claiming Eccles failed to grasp the general framework of Innis' analysis. See Eccles' reply in the same issue, pp. 323-29.
Harris, R.C., The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study, Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1966.
Harris, R.C., "The Extension of France into Rural Canada," in J.R. Gibson, ed., European Settlement and Development in North America: Essays on Geographical Change in Honour and Memory of Andrew Hill Clark, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1978.
Innis, H.A., The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1930.
Lester, R.A., "Playing-card Currency of French Canada, in E.P. Neufeld, ed., Money and Banking in Canada, Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1964.
Miquelon, D., Society and Conquest: The Debate on the Bourgeoisie and Social Change in French Canada, 1700-1850, Toronto, Copp Clark, 1977.
Pritchard, J.S., "The Pattern of French Colonial Shipping to Canada before 1760," Revue française d'histoire d'Outre-Mer, 63, 1976, 189-210.
Read, A.G., "General Trade between Quebec and France during the French Régime," Canadian Historical Association Report, 1953.
Shortt, A., Documents Relating to Canadian Currency, Exchange and Finance during the French Period, Ottawa, King's Printer, 1926.
Trigger, B.G., The Indians and the Heroic Age of New France, Ottawa, Canadian Historical Association Booklets, No. 30, 1979.
Trigger, B.G., "The French Presence in Huronia: The Structure of Franco - Huron Relations in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century," Canadian Historical Review, 49, June 1968, 107-41. Suggests Jesuits were bent on turning Huronia into an Indian state, not a French colony, and used the fur trade and Quebec government connections for that purpose.
Trigger, B.G., "The Jesuits and the Fur Trade," Ethnohistory, 12, 1965, 30-53. Argues that Jesuits did not try to turn the Hurons into Frenchmen, that they were involved in the fur trade only to further their religious work, and that they were motivated only by belief and concern for welfare of a primitive people.
Trudel, M., Introduction to New France, Toronto, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
Trudel, M., The Seigneurial Regime, Ottawa, Canadian Historical Association Booklets, No. 6, 1971.
Weaver, S.R., "Taxation in New France: A Study in Pioneer Economics,"
Journal of Political Economy, 22, October 1914, 736-55. Discusses the
adaptation of European institutions to North American circumstances. The
tax system in New France is depicted as a largely accidental arrangement
arising out of efforts to regulate access to the fur trade, a system based
on expediency rather than theory.
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