ADMS 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lower Canada, Potash, Augur

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1010
• Professor: Alison Kemper

Document Summary

Massey works was the first factory of its kind in canada, (small by the standards of the large manufacturing plants that thrived in larger u. s. cities such as chicago, but still an important step forward for canadian business) Daniel massey, sr emigrated from new york state with his wife rebecca and their children to settle in upper canada in 1802. Lived in cobourg, a small port town on lake ontario and began the arduous process of building a new life in upper canada. They brought their furniture, two oxen, farm tools and brute strength to cut down hardwood trees, uproot stumps, and remove rocks and boulders. The masseys, like 95 per cent of the settlers in upper canada, bet their futures on farming. Their son daniel jr. spots opportunity in 1817, as daniel sr. cleared the land for his farm and burned his trees because their was no market for them.