caa a22 4500 386369135 CHVBK 20180307111949.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3115701 doi S0007680500067295 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3115701 Terminating Building Societies in Quebec City, 1850-1864 [Elektronische Daten] In discussions of the history of real estate markets a key role clearly must be assigned to financial institutions, yet our knowledge of their various structures, particularly before the late nineteenth century, remains sketchy. One organization created to facilitate real estate purchases in the absence of other institutional sources of mortgage loans was the building society, either permanent or terminating. This article gathers together the information available about terminating building societies in mid-nineteenth century Quebec City. After an explanation of the societies' objectives and regulations, the article examines the difficulties that these societies faced as a result of general economic fluctuations and of the changing desires of members, who often wished to use the societies to place savings at interest rather than for home purchase. Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1989 Paterson Donald G. Donald G. Paterson are professors of economics at the University of British Columbia. Shearer Ronald A. Ronald A. Shearer are professors of economics at the University of British Columbia. Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/2(1989), 384-415 0007-6805 63:2<384 1989 63 BHR https://doi.org/10.2307/3115701 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3115701 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Paterson Donald G. Donald G. Paterson are professors of economics at the University of British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shearer Ronald A. Ronald A. Shearer are professors of economics at the University of British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/2(1989), 384-415 0007-6805 63:2<384 1989 63 BHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge