In a few places, maybe. A good many outports MADE their own soil from rotted seaweed and fish bits.
Didn't the Mi'kmaq teach the French how to do that?
In a few places, maybe. A good many outports MADE their own soil from rotted seaweed and fish bits.
Also, the Portuguese were not that much into settler colonies, they had huge problems to settle Brazil, and in Brazil you could get rich.Not really. Once you strip away some pines and find out that you can actually grow things in the soil, you might as well start with a small-scale colony. Give it some time, and soon we could make Newfie jokes - but for their dialect of Portuguese instead.![]()
Not really. Once you strip away some pines and find out that you can actually grow things in the soil, you might as well start with a small-scale colony. Give it some time, and soon we could make Newfie jokes - but for their dialect of Portuguese instead.![]()
In a few places, maybe. A good many outports MADE their own soil from rotted seaweed and fish bits.
Also, the Portuguese were not that much into settler colonies, they had huge problems to settle Brazil, and in Brazil you could get rich.