HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Offshore Bank, Grand Banks Of Newfoundland, Columbian Exchange
12 Jan 2017
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Lecture #5: Canadian History 2500
Remaking the Atlantic Colonies
Dominant Factors in Colonization
• Staple resource exploitation
• Columbian Exchange and Ecological imperialism
• Aboriginal – settler relations
• Imperial policy and conflict
Key Points
• Grand Banks
• Inshore coastal fishery
• Offshore bank fishery
• Beothuk
• Plaisance or Placentia
• Port-Royal
• 1713 Treaty of Utrecht
• The Massacre of Grande Pre
The Early Migratory Fishery
• John Day
• Abundance of fish draw Europeans to this part of the world
• COD Fish draw Europeans to Newfoundland
• This drew the attention of the Portuguese, Spanish, Basque and French
• Harvest the wealth of COD
• COD Fish valuable to Europeans because:
- It was an easy harvest
- Easy to preserve the fish
- The Catholic church has strict dietary restrictions on when you can eat
meat
- Europe’s population is growing, there are a lot of people who practice the
catholic religion and they can’t eat meat so they need to eat the fish
• Had to be transportable
• COD are seasonal fish; Inshore coastal fishery & Offshore bank fishery
• Summer: Inshore coastally
- Inshore fishery needed land fall
- Set up fishing stations along coast where they could harvest fish
- Use dry preservation
- Consequential to Europeans in North America
- Requires the facility of the land
- More valuable because you bring back more fish, lighters not as heavy
- More contact with people
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Document Summary
Dominant factors in colonization: staple resource exploitation, columbian exchange and ecological imperialism, aboriginal settler relations. Inshore coastal fishery: offshore bank fishery, beothuk, plaisance or placentia, port-royal, 1713 treaty of utrecht (cid:498)the massacre of grande pre(cid:499) The catholic church has strict dietary restrictions on when you can eat. Set up fishing stations along coast where they could harvest fish. More valuable because you bring back more fish, lighters not as heavy. Cod and colonization: 1583: humphrey gilbert, settlement was small, plantations, (cid:883)(cid:888)(cid:883)(cid:882): john guy and cupid"s cove. First english settlement: george calvert, 1620: ferryland. No fur trade existence: 1638: david kirke, 1662: plaisance (placentia) This conflict found expression in north america. French resolved to try and drive them off the island. Empires at war in newfoundland: 1689-(cid:883)(cid:888)9(cid:889): king william"s war, pierre le moyne d"ilberville. France wouldn"t return after (cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:883)(cid:885: 1713: treaty of utrecht. Founding acadia: 1702-1713: war of the spanish succession.
