HIST 1300 Study Guide - French Shore, France 4, Spanish Wine
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Newfoundland and the fishery: geography, resources, human occupancy. It was a separate british colony up until 1849. It took britain a long time to formally recognize newfoundland as a colony. Having any kind of a pop"n there is a waste of money, big argument was if. Newfoundland to be a colony of settlement, or colony of occupation (resource) Early people who tried to find settlements in newfoundland, did not understand the cold. Labrador current, the thought it would be the same climate as england (but it benefits from the gulf stream) Animals in newfoundland are mostly predators/animals+bad weather= hard to survive in. Beothuk nomadic, hunter pop"n , small numbers (25-35 people) fished, hunted caribou, only about 500-700 of them in newfoundland. Cultural habits was to paint bodies in red ochre red indians . Banks of newfoundland are elevated shallows (part of continental shelf) where fish have to swim closer to the surface (grand banks, st georgia"s banks)
