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Presents an abstract of the paper `Property Rights, Competition and Depletion in the Eighteenth-Century Canadian Fur Trade: The Role of the European Market,' by Frank D. Lewis, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an interpretation of Canadian Prairie settlement from 1898 to 1911. Method used in simulating the extension of feasible region of cultivation; Comparison of the actual area of cultivation with the simulated feasible region; Factors to be accounted for the increase in wheat yields in the feasible region.

Presents a reply to a commentary on an article which proposed a stock adjustment model for the rate of settlement in the Canadian prairies from 1870 to 1911. Implication of the commentary; Basis of the argument stated in the article; Recommendations.

Discusses handloom weaving in 19th-century rural Canada. Survival of hand technology using industrial inputs and part-time female labor; Income-sensitivity of the demand for homespun; Patterns of weaving by men and women; Cloth constituting a significant share of farm production.

Discusses the factors which contributed to the Canadian economic history. Details of export and import market; Production output of manufacturing industries; Economic policy of the country; Details of economic development.