The politics of forestry: the failure of the Lepreau pulp and paper project in New Brunswick, 1947-1949.

摘要

Prior to the Second World War, it was commonplace in Canada for politicians to shape the development of the forest industries through the allocation of Crown forests for the purposes of patronage or traditional party politics. This began to change in the early decades of the 20th century due to the lobbying efforts of professional foresters and forest industrialists. However, it was a long and uneven transition, lasting well into the 1960s. An excellent example of the politics of development that occurred during this shift in Crown land dynamics was a failed New Brunswick pulp and paper project, to be located on the Lepreau River watershed, in the late 1940s. The surviving Lepreau project records offer historians unique insight into the closed-door politics that took place during the long and uneven transition away from the traditional dynamics of patronage and party politics that once surrounded Crown land allocation in New Brunswick and much of Canada in general.