Week 2 The Birth and Quick Death of Canada's First Commercial Brewery Flashcards
What is the staple thesis and how does it attempt to explain the emergence of new industries, like brewing?
The staple thesis stated that the demand for Canadian resources shaped Canada as a country especially through the fur trade and wheat production. The emergence of brewery was a byproduct of the large production of Canadian wheat and barley.
Discuss the debate over the role of the State in Canada’s economic development.
The rich by nature, poor by policy argument states that the state in Canada has too much involvement and control in Canadian markets leading to an average poor economic outcome
was Jean Talon and what was his rationale for building Canada’s first commercial brewery?
His rational was to sell beer to the population in new France and the other colonies in France, because of his perceived high demand for alcohol
Why did Canada’s first commercial brewery fail? Was this a case of “rich by nature, poor by policy”?
Canadas first commercial brewery failed because of the extremely low demand for beer at the times as well as not having adequate technology to keep the beer from going stale and flat when trading with other French colonies.
Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952) 1
Good student and went to McMaster University (1913) in Hamilton, Went to fight in WW1, started developing a national identity after the war, finished school in Chicago, started teaching at the university of Toronto about Canadian identity, he said we were Canadian because of the Canadas land and resources, especially because of the fur trade (rivers leading to more fur), then after that Canadian wheat production
Group of Seven 1
They represent the Canadians searching of the distinctiveness during the 1920s, find roots of Canadian heritage through our Canadian landscapes,
Staple Thesis 1
The staple thesis stated that the demand for Canadian resources shaped Canada as a country especially through the fur trade and wheat production.
Forward and Backward Linkages 1
The trading links with France and its colonies
Frank Underhill (1889-1971) 2
Founder of the Regina manifesto(semi communist party), he was not a communist,
“Oh Canada, Our Land of Crown Corporations” 2
What he means is that Canada is a land has state run enterprise and corporations.
“Rich by Nature, Poor by Policy” 2
The states involvement in our markets has hurt Canadians economically
Jean Baptiste Colbert (1618-1683) 3
The minister of the marine (all overseas colonies), creator of Canadas first brewery, very good with numbers (talented accountant), hired as a finical advisor for the cardinal and made very good investments, then hired by the king which he then asks to be the minister of the marine,
Cobert’s Grand Design: France triangle trades 3
Colonies will be a source of supply for France, which France then turns in to goods through manufacturing, which it then sells, as well as French colonies trading with each other
Jean Talon (1626-1694) 3
Created the first brewery in Canada, became the governor of new France (1667), plan to boost fur trade and population, planned to spur growth with sending women over for the overrepresented male population.
The daughters of the King (filles du roi) 3
Rounded up girls from orphanages age 12 to 25 to send over to new France, many orphans girls did not make the journey or were not able to adapt to the weather conditions. Then he sent over farmers daughters, with both of these policies he was able to double the population.
