HIS261H5 Lecture Notes - Algonquin Language, Lake Simcoe, Early Modern Europe
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Slow initial growth: discover of the st. lawrence, 1642 no formal activity for 60 years, discovered & claimed and left. All has to do with european circumstances, what did develop was commercial fishery in the coast of newfoundland, the ocean below and beyond, the gulf of st. Lawrence in the 60 years no formal discovery, fisherman came from various european ports and substantive fishery developed. Green fishery caught the fish in large numbers put them on your ship & packed them on your ship with salt, took a month/few weeks, sail right back to. Another way was dry fishery go on to the shore, laid them out to dry and hope they would fit and repack them on your ship, used more by the english men. Developed a port along nfld red bay catching whales occurred, which was very dangerous at the time.
