Despite the eventual settlement of Loyalist land grants in 1785, the economy of Shelburne collapsed in the late 1780s as a lack of agricultural land, a collapse of the whale fishery and poor inland trade routes led four fifths of the population to leave.
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On June 3, Champlain arrived in Tadoussac ( the only inland trading post and used by all the major European countries ) on the north shore of the St . Lawrence River only to discover that Dupont-Grav?had immediately tried to impose the trade monopoly on the Basque and Spanish captains and had been answered with muskets and cannons.
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Sakai had been a significant trade center in the Muromachi period, and this trading nexus continued to be important during the Edo Period; however, during this time-frame, Sakai's merchants focused on in inland trade because of the " Sakoku " policy which prohibited all contact with foreigners except through the island of Dejima in Nagasaki harbor.
