Shipbuilding and Trade in the Atlantic Colonies
This New Brunswick industry benefited from the shipbuilding industry in the mid-1800s, alongside iron and coal.
What is lumber?
In Prince Edward Island during the mid-1800s, this fraction of farmers actually owned the land they farmed.
What is one-third?
This group made up the majority of the population in Canada East during the 1800s.
Who are the Canadiens / French settlers?
In the first half of the 1800s, these new arrivals occupied fertile lands previously lived on by First Nations in Canada West.
Who are British immigrants?
Before Canada West's factories started producing farm machinery, farmers had to import it from these two countries.
What are Britain and the United States?
Known as the fastest ship in the world, this ship made a record-breaking trip to Australia in 1852.
What is the Marco Polo?
Who are landlords / wealthy landowners.
In the mid-1800s, this economic group did not share in the prosperity enjoyed by English businessmen in Montréal and Québec City.
Who are the working class?
This major transportation development in the 1850s transformed isolated settlements into a lively network of farms, towns, and cities.
What is the railway system?
By 1861, this many factories were producing farm machinery in Canada West.
What is 31?
The continued cultural interest in the Marco Polo over 100 years after it sank shows the importance of this industry to the Atlantic colonies.
What is shipbuilding?
Fishing families in Newfoundland were often in debt to this group, which controlled the fishing industry.
Who are wealthy merchants?
Wealthy french landowners in Canada East who rented out land to Canadien farmers were known by this term.
What are seigneurs?
The boom in railway construction in the 1850s primarily benefited farmers by making it easier to bring this type of product to ports for export.
What are crops and other agricultural products?
The rise in the price of this crop encouraged farmers to borrow money to purchase new machinery.
What is wheat?
In 1854, this treaty allowed for free trade of natural resources between British North America and the United States.
What is the Reciprocity Treaty?
This war, which started in 1861, led to an increased demand for products from the Atlantic colonies.
What is the American Civil War?
This Canadien political leader and seigneur played a key role in the Lower Canada Rebellions of 1837.
Who is Louis-Joseph Papineau?
Before the railways, this method of transportation was crucial for shipping crops and timber from Canada West.
What is transportation by ship?
This Toronto-based company became the largest farm machinery factory in Canada West by 1886.
What is the Massey Company?
After this event, the Reciprocity Treaty ended, abolishing free trade between The United States and The Atlantic Colonies
What was the American Civil War?
This type of trade between the Atlantic colonies and the United States increased after the signing of the Reciprocity Treaty.
What is agricultural trade.
The Act of Union in 1840 aimed to assimilate the French people into English culture by forming this new colony.
What is the Province of Canada?
The railway system made it easier for farmers in remote areas to get these items to their farms.
What is farming machinery?
This year marked the peak of factory growth in Toronto, with the Massey Company employing 700 workers.
What is 1886?