HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lower Canada, Land Tenure, Navigation Acts
21 Nov 2016
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Characteristics of colonial society in bna by 1840s: All experienced significant settler population growth varies depending on the colony. High marriage rates 80-90% of women married. Agriculturalist and natural resource labourers other positions but predominantly farmers. Patriarchal society w/ divisions along gender closely tied to the empirical side. Mercantile economy linked to the interests of britain to thrive the industrial revolution in. In return, they would important the industrial goods to bna. Preferential trade to maintain this mercantile trade system. New england excluded from west indies trade. 1763 early 19th century: adjustment to british rule and growth of fur trade. Early 19th dentury 1830s: decline of fur exports and rise of agricultural and timber exports. 1830s (cid:1005)8(cid:1008)(cid:1004): eco(cid:374)o(cid:373)ic stag(cid:374)atio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)agricultural crisis(cid:863) Farming was apart of the st. lawrence valley but expanded after the french supreme. Changes in farm production: expansions if wheat, potatoes. By the 1830s, the agriculture began to collapse. Lower canada becomes net wheat importer by 1830s.
