LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grand Banks Of Newfoundland, Caishen, Suger

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Draw (reasons) of the new world (north/south america, etc): God- large numbers of missionaries; aim to convert a lot of indigenous population to different types of christianity (mostly catholic) Glory- scene of many wars, between rival european empires. Canada was the setting of 8 wars, many people came over to fight those wars. Business of extracting or acquiring resource commodities in order to sell them to an external market. Basic: getting the industry to sell it somewhere else. Example: mining (not used right where it is done), cotton (sent to britain) First staples in canada: fishing: grand banks. Done with minimal technology, small boats, tough conditions, for a long time. 18th century early 19th century: throwing out lines and pulling in by hand still, little bit larger boats but still considered small, labour still brutal very few workers wanted to do this job. Starts with place holding biggest and best spots, families came, early morning.