HSTR 230A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Newfoundland English, Geopolitics
13 Sep 2016
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War & geopolitics / north american theatre of the european wars. From the eyes of people who lived there, new france looked like a permanent colony. Off and on alliance with the iroquois. And according to the french, the english camp located below new france, was quite a bit weaker then the french was. Started with a rivalry in the fur trade, as the fur trade often overlapped with war. By the 1750"s european wars took priority. Most important early for t for fur trading was fort albany (around where. *in 1670 the hudson"s bay company was created* The french tried to counter england by going further west. Gift diplomacy: in exchange for being on the aboriginal land they gave the natives gifts (guns, ammo, other types of metal) Aboriginals considered this as a type of rent, for the people building forts on their land.
