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Economic Development

Original title: The Hamilton Wharf and Landing, Queenston (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario), 1789.; Author: STAPLES, OWEN, 1866-1949, attributed to.; Author: Year/Format: 1913, Picture

Source: Courtesy of Toronto Public Library/ DC-OHQ2-PICTURES-S-R-7

This quotation from the biography of Robert NICHOL describes one of the war’s lasting legacies in Upper Canada:

“More important, Nichol … recommended ‘permanent measures’ for relieving the stricken economy, especially the ‘improvement of our inland navigation … In an extensive scale, a scale commensurate with the increasing power and rapidly accumulating commercial resources of the Province.’”

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NICHOL, ROBERT
MERRITT, WILLIAM HAMILTON (1793-1862)
BY, JOHN