HIS3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Joseph Cunard, Responsible Government, Anthracite
18 Mar 2016
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1800 in mariimes, 800 000, 1820s 200 000, 1851 500 000. 1850s new migrates mix with people with deep roots, Prince edward island was only place to feed itself, others import what they needed. Import of food in 1850, of total imports into nova scoia. Most land in atlanic canada was not good for agriculture. Products were hay, potatoes, oats, and some other grains, turnips, apples, corn and lax in small quaniies. Livestock buter, cheese, milk, muton, wool, etc. Problem, does self-suicient but not income, income from do some trapping, or ish, seasonal engaged in ship building, even seasonal small ime manufacturing, depending on area they cut imber. Most of mariimes covered in forests, mixed forests, and coniferous forests. Before 1835 there were very litle need for imber/imber manufacturing: changed with napoleonic wars (france stopped imber export, england turned to north. 1824, colony imposed licenses, had to pay a fee for right and license were only for short periods.
