Shipbuilding on Prince Edward Island: Entreprise in a Maritime setting, 1787-1920
ISBN: 9781772824087
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Ottawa Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Shipbuilding industry -- Prince Edward Island History; Shipbuilding -- Prince Edward Island -- History;

This detailed examination of wooden shipbuilding on Prince Edward Island traces the industry's cycles of prosperity and decline, and describes the types of vessels built, production profiles and market orientation. Accounts of shipbuilding at the community level reveal the local impact of financing and constructing vessels, and document how the industry facilitated the distribution of timber and agricultural surpluses.


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