British Direct Investment in Canada 1890-1914

Some seventy years ago, at its peak, British investment in Canada accounted for over 20 per cent of British annual capital exports, and in the twenty-five years before World War I, for about 70 per cent of the capital flowing into Canada.
This study separates direct from portfolio investment (the form British investment has been assumed to prefer) and, on the basis of an analysis of the records of ...