LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Old-Growth Forest, Paternalism, People Everyday

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Structure and population is dominated by white settlers: french, britain, canada is also part of the america. And this modern system: first industries are shipping things back to europe, staple development. Staples: dominates early economy, harold innis= classic definition. Business of extracting or acquiring resource commodities in order to sell them to an external market: fishery. Fishing started in larger boats, but eventually settlements grew near the coast, especially in. Newfoundland and they started to use smaller boats. Eventually ran out of fish: fur trade. Fur trade develops cabins and forts along the great lakes. Voyageurs would paddle from montreal to thunder bay. Portages- pulling boat to side, taking things out and carry canoe. Niagara falls: timber industry. became largest, remained largest. Has to happen in winter so that the ground isn"t too soft and muddy: key features, size of labour force. Big staple industries in terms of money and labour force.