ECON 2420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Avalon Peninsula, Cape Race
29 Nov 2017
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A history of the canadian economy chapter #2: the atlantic colonies to 1763. The economic history of atlantic canada to 1763 is tied inextricably to the cod fishery. Newfoundland"s economic history after 1600 is the story of how this. European migratory inshore fishery ultimately gave way to a residentary industry in the process, the island was transformed from fishery to a colony. The migratory fishery of the west of england: the english mitagory fishery was centered in the southwest region of that country, in more than 40 ports located between bristol and. Besides the fisherman of newfoundland, the only other permanent european presence in atlantic canada in 1713 was that of the acadians in what is now nova scotia and new brunswick. The acadians were mainly farmers, building dikes to keep the sea from the rich marshland soil: wheat, rye, peas, and livestock were the principal outputs, any surplus production went, illicitly to new england in exchange for.
