Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Early History of Canadian Banking, Vol. 4: Canadian Currency and Exchange Under French Rule
During the period from 1738 to 1745 the best fields for Canadian trade fairly coincided with the outlets permitted to it, hence the relative prosperity of the period.
Another gain to Canada was the revival in 1743 of the ship building industry, ou the king's account, at Quebec, which had been suspended since the time of Colbert and Talon. Up to the end of 1744 exchanges on this account had been drawn upon the royal treasury to the extent of 1.
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