PROFESSOR H. A. INNIS, M.A., PH.D., Editor
Associate Professor of Political Economy, University of Toronto

The following series offers material on the development and present con-
dition of basic industries, and presents an interpretation of the relative position
occupied by these industries in Canadian development as a whole. The volumes
will meet the needs of the student, of those directly interested in the industries,
and of those generally interested in Canada as an economic unit.

By H. A. INNIS, M.A., PH.D.

In this volume Professor Innis describes basic trends in Canadian development,
and provides an introduction to a series of volumes which will deal with the par-
ticular problems of staple industries. The chapters are arranged to suggest the
relation of the geographic background, especially the influence of water trans-
portation, on the production of staples, and to emphasize the problems of overhead
costs incidental to the production of wheat, which have been crucial in our
present difficulties.

By H. A. INNIS, M.A., PH.D.

"An interpretation of the historical record of a primary industry whose
growth was a vital factor in the expansion of Canada."-- R. M. MacIver, General
Preface.

". . . this contains the strongest single chapter yet written by any
Canadian historian, political or economic. . . . There is more theory in it
than in all the question-begging rigmarole of English political economy on the
subject of Diminishing Returns in Agriculture."-- C. R. Fay, in Supplement to
The Economic Journal.

By E. S. MOORE, M.A., PH.D.
Professor of Economic Geology, University of Toronto,
Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Geology

Professor Moore, an able geologist, has given an interesting and timely account
of the minerals that have been found in this country, the localities at which they
are known to occur, the character and composition of the rocks in which they are
imbedded, or with which they are associated, and the methods of mining adopted
for extracting them, with quantities and values of each mineral or ore mined to
date. The author has included a glossary of six pages, a copious index and thirteen
maps.

"A most valuable review of Canada's mineral wealth."-- Canada Illustrated
Weekly, London.

By MARY QUAYLE INNIS, PH.B.

The first economic history of Canada to be published. For the general
student of Canadian history and affairs, this is an invaluable and fascinating work.
For the specialist in the field of economics, here is an authoritative history, copiously
documented, with more than six hundred references to contemporary accounts,
state papers and other source material.

BY RUTH FULTON GRANT, M.A.

This volume deals with the later phases of an industry which dominated the
economic history of the Maritimes almost from the date of the discovery by John
Cabot in 1497.

"Mrs. Grant is to be congratulated on producing a comprehensive, illuminating
and thoughtful work on the subject, and the records of the Atlantic fisheries are
now enriched by at least one important volume of its progress and problems,"
--Canadian Fisherman.

Publishers THE RYERSON PRESS Toronto 2

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