ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture 2: Pre Industrial Labour Studies

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1A03
• Professor: Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins

Document Summary

Difference between mexico brazil and other countries. Aboriginal population is smaller in terms of workforce and population. Canada was populated by france and britain. Business of extracting or acquiring resource commodities in order to sell them to an external market. Europeans would come to grand bank to fish. Getting to the best spots early (place holding) Life in residential fishery is entirely based on water, isolation and its distinct in culture. Truly unique trade (beaver pelt hat only thing to rely on to keep your head warm) Aboriginals were used to trap, as they knew the landscape and were more efficient than the white europeans. Would set up small forts for prince wales and other companies and they would wait for the aboriginals to come to them. Aboriginals only traded with people they knew, so the aboriginals insisted on festivals. Compete to the hudson bays, it goes directly to the aboriginals, start in montreal and go to aboriginal peoples.