Reference no: EM133283892
Assignment:
Canada: A history of the present
Discussion questions need to answered in detail
- What were the relationships between resource extraction and settlement?
- What were the power dynamics and social relations of the fish and fur trades?
- How did cultural transmission and exchange occur within the trades?
REQUIRED MATERIALS
Conrad, Finkel, Fyson, Canada, chp. 5.
Carolyn Podruchny, "Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Among Bourgeois Clerks and Voyageurs in the Montréal Fur Trade, 1780-1821," Labour/Le Travail 43 (Spring 1999), 43-70.
Sylvia van Kirk, "Introduction" and "Women in Between," Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society, 1670-1870 (Winnipeg: Watson and Dwyer, 1980), introduction and ch. 4, pp. 11-18 and 73-90.