The true interest of Great-Britain, in regard to the trade and government of Canada, Newfoundland, and the coast of Labrador. Shewing the absurdity of appointing military and naval officers to rule over a commercial people; and the great...
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1767 (author)
This is an anonymous 18th-century political pamphlet. It argues that Britain’s northern American possessions—Canada, Newfoundland, and the Labrador coast—are fundamentally commercial territories whose prosperity depends on trade, and it contends that placing military and naval officers in charge of governing them is misguided, since such men lack the outlook needed to nurture a trading economy. The pamphlet likely makes the case for civilian, commercially-minded administration as the surer path to securing Britain’s economic interest in these territories.
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