LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Liminality, The Voyageurs, Industrial Revolution

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

United states, northern france, parts of germany= early 1800;s. Business of extracting or acquiring resource commodities in order to sell them to an external market. Canada has many staples that they need (eg. oil made in alberta and then sold to the. 18th to early 19th century ships were sailing on wavy water and bad weather conditions while they fished, workers had protective clothing. Starts with placeholding (living in newfoundland so they can be close to good fishing spots) Develops into newfoundland fishery: outports (the best fishing spots) Outport fishing spots become popular living spots (eg. Structural disadvantages: fish prices, debt- pricey to start off (flaking) Mutual dependency: aboriginals: trapping, whites: trade goods. Early trade dominated by the hudson"s bay route, late 16 century and the 17th century. This would help the aboriginals feel like they knew who they were trading with (they didn"t trade with people they didn"t know)