HIS263Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lower Canada, Quebec Act, Seigneurial System Of New France
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The loyalist migration transformed and complicated the population and political geography of nova scotia and quebec, producing new colonial configurations and social problems. The colonial landscape of prince edward island was swept clean and was marked by a unique absentee landowner class. Ne(cid:449)fou(cid:374)dla(cid:374)d"s settler so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:449)as spurred o(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) the (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)er(cid:272)ial possi(cid:271)ilities (cid:272)reated (cid:271)(cid:455) the. Revolution and it started to grow in earnest: fish economy, population of newfoundland was made entirely of transient fishermen. People who worked with the fleets from europe without sinking roots into the out port communities: the residents became merchants, the demographics of nfl did much to shape the community that evolved. There was a disoriented ratio of men to women. Because britain did not want to stimulate settlement and colonial population growth, it had discouraged female immigration. The fate of the beothuk points to the ecological incompatibility of the newcomer and aboriginal societies on newfoundland.
