HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Matchlock, Personal Identity, Brown Bess
29 Mar 2013
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Gun murder and gun control in the usa & canada, 1600s-2000s. 1530s french colonists began to arrive and settle in the colony of new france. A lot of these settlers were farmers; fur trade (i. e. , beaver) was a valuable and driving commodity. There was competition between french and english and french forbade the natives in nf to trade with. First gun shooting in canada 1609 samuel de champlain; huron v. iroquois champlain shot 2. Iroquois leaders huron and iroquois were blown away by the use of guns, and this is when they began to use guns and weapons that the europeans had brought. Guns became a symbol of status and prestige. 1636 french revised their trade policy and began trading firearms. British also traded their guns with aboriginal peoples. Hbc purchased for trade over 480-1000 guns/year. Mid 1800s as canada developed, the use of guns decreased; the need for guns declined even more due to rural societies.
