Marvin McInnis

Professor McInnis was officially retired by Queen's in September 2003 but continues to be closely involved with the department. For forty years he taught courses in economic history and the economics of population. He continued to teach a senior seminar in the fall of 2003. This coming year, 2004/05, he will be Distinguished Visiting Professor at Osaka Gakuin University in Japan.

Marvin continues to pursue his research interest which focuses generally on the development of the Canadian economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has a book in the works on the Great Emigration from Canada in the last four decades of the nineteenth century. Two of his recent papers are Engineering Expertise and the Canadian Exploitation of the Technology of the Second Industrial Revolution, and Just How Industrialized Was Canada in 1890?. The former will be published by Macmillan-Palgrave as a chapter in a collection on human capital and technological progress. The latter is just a note intended to incite some discussion.

"Canadian Economic Development in the Wheat Boom Era: A Reassessment"

Recent Publications

• "The Population of Canada in the Nineteenth Century," and "Canada's Population in the Twentieth Century," chapters 9 and 12, respectively, of Michael Haines and Richard Steckel, eds, A Population History of North America, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• "The Economy of Canada in the Nineteenth Century," Ch. 2 of Stanley Engerman and Robert Gallman, eds, The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Vol. II: The Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• "Immigration and Emigration: Canada in the Late Nineteenth Century," in Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson (eds.), Migration and the international labor market, 1850-1939. (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), pages 139-55.