LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: North West Company, Liminality, Outport
8 Sep 2016
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God - nd god, missionaries to convert large amounts. Glory - large numbers came over for military purposes (major wars -> mexico) Business of extracting or acquiring resource commodities in order to sell them to an external market . The nature of staples change over time. Staples are the biggest engine of the economy, where most of the money and investment tends to come from. Fish = grand banks - enormous amounts of sh. People from europe (portugal, holland) coming to the grand banks to sh. Migratory shery - many boats came for the spring, no shortage of people willing to do it. Residential shery - starts with place holding. Settlements begin to emerge around the coast of newfoundland. Fishery (outport sheries - focused entirely on the water) Fish prices - little knowledge on the prices of product selling. Debt - loans taken out to start shing companies.
