dossier 1 how was commerce organized during the era of the first occupants?

Chapter 2 – Economic developmentLMAC

Mr.Wilson

Dossier 1How was commerce

organized during the era of the first occupants?

What do we already know about the Aboriginal population here in Canada?

Culture?History?Tools?

Based on this, what do you think their economic system was like? (Conclusion)

Reminder…

Encampment Among The Islands Of Lake Huron - by Paul Kane (18180-1871)

The Iroquois and the Algonquians - Complementary economic systems.

The importance of trade relations.

Summer = time to trade!

*Gift Giving is not the same…It has a very different cultural meaning.

Amerindian Trading Systems

Hopewellian Trade ComplexArchaeology – studying burial mounds

Pottery – early art form

What can Hopewell’s study show us? (Conclusion)

The Amerindians covered a large territory and although they had very different cultures, they traded far and wide.

The arrival of Outsiders…

Who were the first to “Discover” North America?

The Norse landed in Newfoundland approximately 5 centuries before Christopher Columbus.

The Norsemen c. 1000 A.D.

Jean Cabot - Newfoundland 1497.

Why was Newfoundland such a great discovery?

Whale hunting – why?

Contact with the Native people.

The European Fisheries

Europeans trading with Natives – for mutual benefit.

Trade = more then just goods, a meeting of cultures.

The Natives had furs, the Europeans had metal pots and knives.

The BARTER SYSTEM.

The Beginning of the Fur Trade

The Europeans – obsessed with beaver pelts.

The Natives thought they were a little nuts.

Animal fur was more profitable then fish.

As a result, fishing was no longer the main economic activity…

The Beginning of the Fur Trade

Pierre Chauvin - Tadoussac, 1600.

Abandoned by 1601 - Tadoussac remained in the hands of the Amerindians.

The Beginning of the Fur Trade

In your common-place books:Research “Fishing Newfoundland” - Find

three different sources (news) and discuss what is happened to the fishing industry there and why… (~100 words) [c-1]

Research “Whaling” – find three different sources and discuss, as a Canadian citizen, whether or not you agree with whale hunting and why (~100 words). [C-3]

Activity 2

pages 57-58

Thank-You!