Article ID: CBB946259242

“One of the Finest Grass Countries I Have Met With”: Prince Edward Island's Colonial-Era Cattle Trade (2016)

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Potato production is now the central agricultural enterprise on Prince Edward Island, but live cattle were the main agricultural export in the first decades after the island became part of the British Empire. Cattle production relied on effective use of marsh hay, pre-existent human alterations to the landscape, and forest grazing, with the Newfoundland fishery providing the main market. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, as the island attracted more immigrants, the cattle industry declined in relative importance, and potato and grain production grew. This shift was driven in part by curtailed access to wild forage as more land was settled and by changing markets, but it represented, too, a shift in the ecosystems that sustained agriculture. Where the early cattle industry depended largely on the nutrient cycles of coastal lands, the grain and potato industries increasingly focused on those of the island interior.

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Authors & Contributors
Dechêne, Louise
Brown, Tad
John Reda
Kemp, Karen
Gliserman, Nicholas
Sluyter, Andrew
Concepts
Agriculture
Cattle
Great Britain, colonies
Dairy industry
Veterinary medicine
Colonialism
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
16th century
Places
Canada
United States
Atlantic world
Nova Scotia
Americas
Italy
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