HIS261H5 Lecture Notes - Land Tenure, Christian Island, Today Today
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02 the colony of new france: the canadien roots of canada (1600 to 1760s) They discovered it, claimed it, then left it. What did develop was a commercial fishery in newfoundland. There is relatively shallow water and filled regularly with fishes. In these 60 years, it was an international fishery and claimed land in the saint lawrence river: fisher mans came from various fisher ports, and these were developed. Fishery: green fishery caught the fish, gutted them, pack them with salt and then salt them back to europe. You never go on the land: dry fishery get a boat full of fish, unload the fish in the shore, lay them out to dry during the summer, then repack them and take them back to europe. The british used dry fishery because supposedly they lacked salt, and thus used the land a lot. The basts who did not have their own country became very good whalers.
