| | Maritime Capital(Updated) The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 by Eric W. Sager, Gerald E. Panting Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1996 by Mcgill-Queens University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-1520-8, ISBN: 0-7735-1520-8
"Sager and Panting describe in detail the growth of the shipping industry and the economic context in which the shipping merchants operated. Shipowning and shipbuilding were a central part of the mercantile economy of the Atlantic colonies of British North America. But, following a slow and incomplete transition in the region from commercial to industrial capitalism, the shipping industry collapsed: by 1900 the local fleets were a thir ..."
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