THE U.K. AND THE CANARY ISLANDS, I.

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CANARIES AND ENGLAND. I try and remember our own past, this is one of the real facts that demonstrate the commercial relationship between the Canary Islands and England (and the United Kingdom and Ireland.) In the past, even during the WW 2nd, there were lots of goods that came and went to England: from the famous sweets to the bananas or other agricultural, essential or miscellaneus products which were expensive but needed for Canarian importer-exporters and Canarian industry/agriculture. Anyway , money wasn't as important as later on, but goods to sell and buy were. In fact, I've heard many respectable families had to eat, but not like others: people from the country -that is from an agriculture environtment- did. These farmers and also cambulloneros (people with a little knowledge of English that had to offer and demand everyday who had started doing it face to face) did not have, somehow and deppending on the month, that big kind ...