HISB40H3 Lecture : Lecture Notes October 31.docx
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St. john"s, grand banks, tariffs, miramichi, woot, wind and sail , steamships, pictou country, dysentery, preferential access, merchant marine, vagabond, brothel, missions, family economy , treaties, beothuk, mi"kmaq, malecite, patronage, e scheat party, Arguing: maritimes had a lot in common with upper and lower canada. Particularly the growing class, socially a lot of similarities. Politically maritimes were different: population growth and ethnic and religious diversity. 19th century half a million people thanks to massive immigrants especially irish and. Irish become the dominant group in new brunswick. Scottish immigrants settled in cape breton which reminded them of scotland and become nova scotia became the largest ethnic group and many ended in pei. A number of slaves came to nova scotia and english was not a common language and spoke gaelic and welsh and acadians spoke french. Rich ethnic diversity came religious diversity, anglicans were overwhelmed by other religious groups, catholics, methodists, etc.
