POLS 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Making Money, Western Alienation In Canada, Canadian Identity
4 Apr 2018
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Ultimately created two countries: canada and the us. War of independence was an economic war canada was a part of the war. British people were there as workers who wanted to spend as little time as possible in canada. Plains of abraham: english beat the french. Kingdom of saxony in germany tries to expand. Other countries joined the war to prevent saxony from becoming a big power. Treaty of paris is the end of the war: saxony was not allowed to expand (they lost). England got to use this war to attack spanish and french land. They fight over land in the caribbean and india. They don"t see new france as profitable anymore. After the first few years, 30,000 settlers went back to france merchants, administrators and merchants: decapitation of french culture. Those who stayed were farmers, fishers, forestry workers. They were self-sufficient agricultural workers didn"t really influence the economy. English merchants don"t want to lose their relationship with gb.
