Essay comparing the effects of the economic models implemented during the colonization of Jamaica and Canada.

In Jamaica and Canada, modern-day attitudes towards power and ambition are the result of certain institutions that were imposed in the early colony. Though both countries were colonized by the British, the different economic models that the colonies imposed have had very apparent and differing consequences. Jamaica's economy depended heavily on the sugar plantations that were developed by the British. Canada's early economy depended on the fur trade. The outcome of these past economic models …

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