HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Northwest Passage, Triangular Trade, Newfoundland And Labrador
25 Oct 2016
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Fish and fur: meet marie-joanne and charles renaut. To be given to charles renaut at the habitation of scatterie on cape breton (letter written by marie) Repsents a victory over the illteracy that affected the frecnh population at this time. Thousands of french fishers took off from france and headed for the grand banks every spring > newfoundland (the men) leaving behind women and elderly to fish. Sending a letter was difficult had to rely on ships to deliver a letter > no post office delivery hope it would eventually get there. Cod home town dependent on cod fishery. 1730: he made descision (charles) not to return home for the winter wife was lonely, wrote to him, wanted him to come home this year, The four great (overlapping) social formations in canadian. The four great social formations: 1. Kin ordered social formation 1876- the indian act: 2.
