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In The Reluctant Land Cole Harris Analysis

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Historians and historical geographers of early Canada may deal with the same time period and people, but they do so in somewhat different ways. According to Cole Harris, the main difference in a historical geographer's approach to the past is different from that of a historian is that historical geographers will explain different stories about how the places were created in the past by people in their own images, while historians explains different stories about how the periods have been created in the past by people in their own images. The sources of a historical geographer is different from the sources of a historian is because historical geographers gather their information based upon the studies of people through lands, maps, and climate, …show more content…

For the fishing industry in Newfoundland, Cole Harris explains about the climate, how fishing was dominated in the economy of northern North America, and how overfishing had a great impact, while the History of Canada explains the trade market of fishing. For the Acadians, the History of Canada talks about their expulsion, religion, and re-establishment, while Cole Harris talks about their population and why they would lost their lands. Lastly the colonists of New France, Cole Harris explains the fur trade, the establishment of trading posts, the overhunting and the reaction of the Natives, which led to the fall of New France in 1760. In comparison to the History of Canada, it had little information. In History of Canada, it talked about birth rates, clothing, villages, soldiers, government, war, population, religion and …show more content…

In 1707, the Acadian population were more than 1500 Acadians, developing around the Minas Basin, Cobequid, and Chignecto Bay. At least two-thirds of the Acadian population in the mid-eighteenth century were descended from families that had arrived in the colony before 1670. In Acadia, land tenure was based on the seigneurial system, but the Acadian operated as if they held their land in freehold. When the Treaty of Utrecht gave Acadia to the British in 1713, one British officer in Nova Scotia had argued that the Acadians have always been enemies to the English government. And so in the beginning of 1745, British settlement and Acadian removal were commonly brought out in the minds of the British government. As a result of the Acadian removal, the Acadians managed to re-establish themselves into larger portions of New Brunswick, as well as in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, with a little practical opposition. And to fend for themselves, the Acadians had developed their culture and institutions before the authorities were fully aware of what was

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