'Are All Your Laws Left Handed!': Property Rights and the Timber Trade in Early Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island
| Autor: | Rusty Bittermann, Margaret McCallum |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Histoire sociale/Social history. 48:343-358 |
| ISSN: | 1918-6576 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/his.2015.0040 |
| Popis: | This paper examines timber theft in the forests of Prince Edward Island during the early nineteenth-century timber boom. The paper argues that large-scale private landowners who owned most of the Island's forests were less successful in controlling illegal cutting or in obtaining revenues from stumpage than were authorities in neighbouring New Brunswick where much of the timber harvest came from Crown lands. The paper considers the landowners' failure to curb the widespread flouting of their property claims to the forests on their estates within the broader context of the Prince Edward Island land question. |
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