LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wage Labour, Machismo, Stapes
16 Oct 2017
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Staple production - helps to shape the basic developments of an economy. Canada in context - canada lags behind other places in terms of economic activity ex. Canada early on is theatre of war between england and. Business of extracting or acquiring resources in order to sell them to an external market . It is the staple industries that dominate the economy: fishery - tons of sh in the grand banks. The outport sheries started around 1600, the rst canada staple industry. Still very big industry: fur trade - fur was the one way to keep warm, it was an item in demand. The fur trade was another one of canada"s stapes 17th century. The hudson bay company began: voyagers - to paddle up the great lakes transporting goods to trade with aboriginal people. Would typically start in montreal and may canoe all the way up to thunder.
