SOC 470 Lecture Notes - Toronto Purchase, Industrial Revolution, Northern Ontario
12 Nov 2012
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Components of a city: population, density, and government. Europeans originally had a good relationship with the aboriginals. Knowledge from the first nations people about how to move around where the furs are, are seen as very valuable to the french. 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 iroquios and they start having wars. 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 mississauga"s, who are able to win out. The french come first, just to take the furs back not to settle but to take from. Canada and take back to europe in the same way that europeans would have taken sugar and other products back to europe.
