HIS263Y1 Lecture : The Royal Takeover
Document Summary
One of the thing that the prof. finds really interesting is the fact that canadian history could have gone so many different ways. What you probably want to do for dates is try and group time into periods, beginning and ending with significant events. The thing with history is there"s a lot of research, detailed, specialized research. For instance, the prof told us quite recently that relationships between the beothuk and the. Newfies was hostile, but the most recent journal of something or other shows evidence of non-hostile trade and contact. When we last saw new france, it had stalled. There were 3,000 spread-out, scattered people under constant threat from the iroquois confederacy. The places they settled were also agriculturally challenged, no room for plantations they produced enough for subsistence. Louis xiv came to the throne, and saw the strength of the colonies of all the other colonies, and he decided to strengthen the colonial network.
