LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Outport, Liminality, Niagara Falls
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Canada in context: canada & mexico or us or brazil, geography is diff, basic demographics . Aboriginal pop. mexico is 7x canada, brazil is 6x, aboriginal ppl out # europeans until 1880"s in canada, in comparisons to new world countries its small, so work force has smaller amount of aboriginal. Overlap immigration and workforce has lots of immigrants. Colonial views cut aboriginal from workforce (in brazil large amounts are in work force: imperial centre. Add in aboriginal pop did not have what europeans wanted (gold) in canada: basic in new world (latin america, america, canada, south america, staples . Business of extracting resources commodities in order to sell them to external market. 2 biggest in new world military and staples. Oil in 2007 saved canada from the recession (staple) This is big in latin america much of countries are based on staples. Imperial centre may be in england while the staple is canadas.