LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Liminality, Grand Banks Of Newfoundland
4 Mar 2014
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Harold innis: "business of extracting/acquiring resource commodities to sell them to an external market: resource industries; getting the material and selling it! With staple industries the demand for the resource is somewhere else; britain, europe etc: staples -- periphery main development -- center, first staple canada is known for -- fish. Grand banks ** became famous as a source of food for europe: migratory fishery. : 1500,1600"s -people came from all over the world and fished off the coast of. Newfoundland: early 18"th & 19"th century, technology has improved in fishing. Difficult work, very demanding, discipline was very important (demand for fishing jobs was very high: residential fishery, people want to get at the best spots for fishing first; place holding to get the best spots. Out port fisheries; entirely dependent on location (near the best fishing areas) extremely isolated, far away from land, primarily used just for fishing: flaking: strip off the meat from the fish, salted and dried.
