SOCI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Cabot, British North America Acts, Quebec Act
12 Feb 2017
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Quebec"s special status stems from its origins as a founding nation of canada. Quebec also claims it"s unique because its people were forced into the canadian union. It was discovered that there were vast numbers of codfish in the area, which could help feed the growing european population. Europeans came to newfoundland to fish, but only lived there at first on a seasonal basis, due to the extremely cold winters. Eventually, competition over the prime fishing areas in the area led to permanent settlements. In 1610, cuper"s cove, the site for england"s first permanent settlement in. Over the course of twenty years, four different english settlements were established, but they all failed. Eventually, england gave up on settling in newfoundland. Cartier went on these voyages in the hopes of finding gold and other precious minerals, In 1534, the voyages of jacques cartier took him to the gulf of st laurence like the spanish had done in south america.
