PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES
It is expected that students will:
• assess how economic systems contributed to
the development of early Canada
SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
• As a class, brainstorm a list of economic systems relevant to early Canada (e.g. mercantilism, feudalism).(mercantile system) (Economics of the fur trade)
Have students each construct a flow
chart showing the processes of production and
exchange of goods in one of the systems, from the
perspectives of both consumers and producers
SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
• Before students begin flow charts showing
production and exchange of goods, discuss the importance of including features such as:
- the major stages of production
- changes of ownership and site with regard to materials and products
- changes of ownership and site with regard to finished products
RESOURCES
In the early seventeenth century, France decided to launch a colonial enterprise of its own in North America. With a view to settling and profiting from this vast addition to the royal lands, the French state took over a system that had its origins in feudalism: the seigneurial regime.
The Colonial Economy: Mercantilism
Canadian Economic History, notes by Professor Robin Neill of UPEI
Canadian Economic History (read-only Google book preview)
The Age of Sail: 1460--1860
1. The emergence of national policy: Europe to the mercantilist era
2. Agriculture and economic development: Europe to the demise of feudalism
3. Feudalism in America: to the American Revolution
4. Feudalism in America: to the American Civil War
5. Mercantilism and settlement in America:
Newfoundland
and the fisheries
6. Mercantilism and settlement in America: agriculture
and the fur trade in New France
7. The Legacy of the Age of Sail