HIS312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Samuel De Champlain, Triangular Trade
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Understand them fully: page number in brackets after the sentence. Immigration 1500-1760 scattered settlements: colonization of canada by france and england, charter groups. Focus on newcomers, not the aboriginal peoples: when they immigrated to canada they lived in small erratic immigration, europe and america, newcomers = had realtions with the aboriginal people : trading, marriage, political etc. Sources limited: rather limited, large numbers of testimonies from the immigrants are missing , many of them are illerate ! So we don"t know what they are thinking: what we have instead are governmental documents about immigration ! European expansion, 16th and 17th centuries: gold, god and glory, in other words the e. expaniding had economic goals ! They wanted gold however no gold in canada but other. America and aboriginal people ! and because they were wild they needed to be converted: imperial goals prestiqe by acquiring an empire !
