POLS 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Middle Power, Canadian Dollar, William Lyon Mackenzie King
4 Apr 2018
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Politics = a relationship trading (ex. fish), contacting others, colonialism. The french created two colonies acadia (maritimes) for fishing and new france (quebec. Canada = village in ancient iroquoian, cartier wrote it down. Or in spanish, the land of nothing *highlights the importance of fish and why. Refers to the part of land after the st. lawrence. Canada was built on its relationship with trade. French worked on their relations with first nations, but british did not = did not have access to the same resources. For britain, canada was an intricate network of trade and important to building their empire used the lumber to build ships for their navy etc, ate canadian beans every morning for breakfast. 20th century largest export was beans to britain. 75% of money in canada ends up in toronto"s financial district, ex. 50% of canada"s financial assets get invested to the u. s or overseas ex. Before the 20s, our economy was british money.
