Exports, Agriculture, and Timber Industries

Hello this is Rebecca Nokatomi blogging live about Agriculture and Timber Industries Grow. Most of Quebec’s exportation was made up of furs going to Britain in 1770. Lower Canada had only 9 percent of fur making up their exports by 1810 because Loyalists could not completely rely on the unsteady fur trade. Agriculture was very important to all of Canada. Lower Canadians had their farms well established, some of these established farmers and their families had been there since the time of New France. The farmers in Upper Canada had a different approach at being farmers. They cleared their own lots for farming. But they did it in a more natural way. They planted wheat around the bottoms of trees. Waited a few years, and then chopped down the weakened trees. This was more natural than cutting it down and killing it when it is just growing. Timber is very important to such places as Britain, England, and many other places in Europe. This timber industry is very popular and successful. Places like England are using such timber for boats, houses, and making paper for their newspaper. Britain was cut off from such an amazing source due to the war in Europe. The British North Americans (loyalists) decided to help out. These workers got their main source of timber transportation from the Saint John, St. Lawrence, and Ottawa River. These workers cut down the trees, and cut them smaller to be transported easier. Many ships came to get such timber to bring to places like Britain and the West Indies. This is Rebecca Nokatomi blogging live about Agriculture and Timber Industries Grow.