SOC 470 Lecture Notes - Toronto Purchase, Northern Ontario, Industrial Revolution

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 470
• Professor: Cheryl Dyson

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Components of a city: population, density, and government. Europeans originally had a good relationship with the aboriginals. The humber river was a shortcut to get up north, so already. Toronto becomes key because of its location, allows access to. Northern ontario where there are a lot of furs and mining resources, and later on toronto is also key because of access to out west. Knowledge from the first nations people about how to move around where the furs are, are seen as very valuable to the. The french bring catholic missionaries and other things that contribute to changing the way of life of the aboriginals sets in relations of power. There are tensions between the french and the hurons and. Europeans also bring with them diseases that the aboriginals become exposed to and lots of people die. One group of aboriginals end up dominating the group, the.