HIS263Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: North West Company, Quebec Nationalism, Canadian Nationalism
Document Summary
Indigeneity and fur trade colonialism is the nor"west. Maritime and overland claims to the edge of empire . Ramsey cook: limited identities quote in slides against the us, attempt t say we are not american we do not have a national identity, that is our identity. Critical for thinking about the praries, bc, and the north before 1867 few leaders, big man history, have to think about social history, everyday people. The west in the east developing the idea of a new colonial project. An eastern construct, and local lived reality. Mix of ethnic groups, less stratified communities. French speaking lower canada less concerned with west. Indigeneity and fur trade colonialism in the nor"west. Indigenous demographic dominance (rapid decline due mainly to infection from trading) Assiniboine (nakota): most populous and widely distributed nation on the praries large urban villages upt o 1000s of people, smallpox devastates the population, hugely eggected: pushed west by incoming groups.
