HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Recollects, Uptodate, Barter
7 May 2012
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Hist 202 survey: canada to 1867 (september 21st 2011) Order of priests who control the giant seigneury encompassing the entire island of montreal. Fell the trees, cut down the trees to make land. Uses the wood as supplies to make a home. Arpents of clearing roughly equivalent to an acre or one-third of a hectare. Sales of firewood, eggs and produce in montreal. In charge of the animals: a cow, the oxen, a sow and a dozen chicken. She is vital in the family s wellbeing. An early stage in the emergence of the french-canadian habitant class, a term which in the canadian context came to designate landowning cultivators or peasants (life of the land, 29) Population growth was a continuous process of colonization that brought more and more territory under the plough throughout the. Property was laid out in long, tin rectangles, going from the river to the forests.
