Slide Outline Flashcards
1
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Six Main Themes of the Semester
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1: People (Relations between indigenous and non- indigenous)
2: Economics (trade, agriculture, industry)
3: Family Formation
4: Military Conflicts
5: Governance: democracy to no dem. (France regime) to limited democracy (Brit. reg.)
6: Territory
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Main “Story”
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- ## focus on territories that would become canada (some not)
3
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People (list)
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- Indigenous communities and nations
- non-indigenous settlers and labourers
- Metis - Ethnogenesis
4
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Indigenous Identities and Nations (People)
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- Complexity and diversity
- Some political Alliances
- Wabanaki confederacy = Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot
- Wendat/Huron
- Iroquois Confederacy = 5 Nations or Haudenosaunee
- Innu on North Shore of St. Lawrence
- Anishinaabe/ Obibway of pays d’en haut (upper Great Lakes)
- Cree around Hudson’s Bay
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Non-Indigenous Settlers and Labourers (People)
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- 17th Migrant to New France: Canada along St. Lawrence and Acadia on Bay of Fundy
- Enslaved people if 18th
- British Colonizers (1763)
- Loyalist from US (After 1784)
- Settlers from Scotland and Ireland
- African Americans leaving slavery 19th C US
6
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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7
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Settler Colonialism
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- Land is appropriated
- Indigenous claims to land ignored/ erased
- Cultures repressed or genocide
- social and cultural values of colonizers are rewarded
8
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Metis (People)
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- Ancestors of Marriage between French/ Anishinabee speaking fur traders from Hudon’s Bay Company Beginning of 18C
- Cultural Identity included blended cultural practices
- Ethnogenesis = a new ethnic or cultural group born of the land
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Trade: trade to mercantilism to Free trade (Economics)
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- Important to Indigenous people and defined relation in 17th C New France
- After 1701 fur trade expanded to pays d’en haut then 1770 more northwest
- Hudson’s bay company move inland with 1790s NWC competition
- Raw material shipped through Mercantilism
- 19C Mercantilism to free trade
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Trade in other resources (Economics)
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- Fishing beginnins in the 1600s
- vital for indigenous people
- drew Europeans to Grand Banks
- Expansion fishing communities on newfoundland coasts
- Industrial Fishing British Columbia
- trade in timber, New Brunswick/ Lower/ East Canada in 19th C
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Agriculture (Economics)
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- Intensified Settler Colonialism
- Some Indigenous People relied on agriculture heavily (Haudenasaunee/ Wendat), others manage env with hunting/ trapping
- Seigneural System in St.Lawrence colony/ Acadian agriculture (17th C expanded in 18th)
12
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Land Surrenders
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- result of Treaties late 18th C to early 19th C
- Initiated land surrenders from Indigenous people
13
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Industrial Production (Economics)
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- Factory production in both rural and urban centers
- industrialization increasingly pulled to urban centres and prompt urban growth
- competition with american industrial production lead sof protectionist economic polic in 1870s - National Policy
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Families (Theme)
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- Important to Indigenous people (community)
- Importance to colonizers - filles du roi
- Intercultural connections - mariage a la facon du pays
- as labour, as survival in agricultural, resource extraction and industrial societies
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Military Conflicts
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- 1608 and Champlain misread on politics
- 1701 and Peace between Haudensaunee and French
- 7 Year War
- 1763 Conquest of New France
- 1776-84 Revolutionary War
- 1812 between America and Britain
- US Civil War
- War in Northwest 1885
