Category: Socials 10

The american civil war was mainly a fight between the northern free states and the southern slave states (a war over slavery) about who would unionized and thus freeing or not freeing the slaves.

The Trent affair was when a american ship stopped a British ship with two agent on board wanting to talk to the British to see if they would join in the confederate cause. The Americans held them as prisoners but they were eventually released as to not cause a war.

The st. Albanis raid was soldiers from the British colony/ies raiding a town called st.albanis and then running back across the american border to not be captured by the Americas. America took this raid as Britain provoking them.

Manifest destiny was this strong belief in america which personally i think is a american excuse to attack Canada, that america under the very rule of god that they should be the ones to govern the entirety of North America.

Fenian’s: Group of Irish men to force the freedom of Ireland from British control. There plan was to hold British colonies and ransom them in return for Ireland’s freedom.

In 1854 The reciprocity treaty was signed by both BNA and United states to allow free trade of goods. But then in 1866, twelve years later the Americans cancelled the treaty.  Because the British no longer had this sharing peace with the Americans they encouraged confederation and continued to try to unite the colonies.

Explain how the economic situation in the 1860s would encourage the BNA Colonies to unite…

According to the article about the Canadian railways there was a need for transport and trade to be able to survive as people needed food and supplies from other places and so the railways needed to be built. This connected many towns and specifically the BNA colonies because the train traveled from one place to another and hence there was bound to be interaction between the colonies. Also Britain had tariffs on Canadian grain (corn law) about taxing the grain import from Canada lower than america to be able to level out the price.  So the colonies united in an effort to lower/ completely take away the tax so that food wasn’t so expensive almost to the degree that people were going into starvation.  It did bring economic depression though.  The Reciprocity treaty was brought forth in an effort to bring Canada out of it economic strain and bringing america as a partner with it.  Eventually they did sign it because they needed to sell the products from the British colonies and that brought confederation.

According to Mr.Norton in his memoir of the rebellion against the British in 1837, him being on the rebel side, first states that they were not well versed in the way of how to handle guns.  They were first basically rounded up and given a staggered arrangement of weapons and told to put their toe on the line and fight. This s not the best way to approach a war obviously as it seems no one knew what the heck to do.

Mackenzie’s memoir states that when they approached a town they saw a group of the enemy.  first the rebels shot at them then the enemy shot back and ran away.  When the rebels shot again they did not step aside to make room for the bullets instead they dropped to the ground which is dangerous i supposed since u might get shot yourself. Also someone from the rebel side did get shot and killed and when Mackenzie took a look he noticed that by the way that the man was shot he was not shot by the enemy but by his own team.  Yet again an example of poor organization and skill.

Mr. Bellingham (British)  states that his leader and most of the men rode horses which is smart because then you somewhat above the rebels and can hurt them more easily.

In short the rebels lost due to lack of proper training, skills, efficient weapons, and size of army.

SECTION ONE

NUMBER IS BY THOUSANDS

1. Goods producing sector-2,336.9
2. Agriculture-5
3. Forestry fishery oil and gas-7
4. Utilities-0
5. Construction-4
6. To the Cordillera region (BC) the most valuable things here are:

1. Goods such as fruit and vegetables from the okanagan
2. Farming
3. Lumber and the trees, fish mostly salmon, gas oil from the mountains
4. Utilities like pipelines, energy, electricity, and gas
5. Lumber for building houses and the improvement of the city

SECTION TWO

Based off of 2014:

Top 5 industries in province

• Real estate and rental and leasing
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Health care and social assistance
• Energy sector

How much do they make?

• 36,583
• 17,039
• 14,625
• 13,688
• 12,336

The most valuable to the region is the real estate and rental and leasing, with making 36,583 in 2014

Gdp rose 2.6% in bc

SECTION THREE

Specific example of how humans have altered the physical geography for the industry

The company name is Kalesnikoff Lumber. It is located in Thrums, British Columbia, Canada. It is about halfway between Vancouver, BC and Calgary, Alberta. Located near the Canada, USA border. Kalesnikoff operates in an interior fertile temperate rainforest in the Kootenay region also known as the “wet-belt”. Kalesnikoff alters the physical geography by cutting down trees and forests. This leads to wildlife species deteriorating or moving to other parts of Canada. The species can become invasive to that part of Canada. This can cause the invasive animals to start taking a toll on that part of the land. They cut down the trees for more wood to make everyday things like furniture and household goods. This has an effect on the land because it deteriorates the trees in the forest. With the amount that logging companies such as Kalesnikoff are cutting down, our forests could be gone in the next hundred years or so. Trees play a role in absorbing greenhouse gases that cause global warming so by cutting trees down it speeds up the process of global warming.

Citations

“The British Columbia Economic Accounts.” Economic Accounts. Web. 12 Feb. 2016.

“The British Columbia Economic Accounts.” Economic Accounts. Web. 12 Feb. 2016.

Biomes in each region.

1. Cordillera: Coast and Interior Forest, Grassland, Tundra, Coniferous forest, mixed forest, parkland.
2. Interior Plains: Mixed forest, grassland, coniferous forest, tundra
3. Canadian Shield region: Subarctic, tundra, mixed forest, coniferous forest.
4. Arctic region: Tundra, subarctic.
5. Lawrence Lowlands: mixed forest
6. Appalachian: Coniferous forest, mixed forest.

Mount Waddington (B.C) for Cordillera region because: shows its abstract peaks and mountain range. Shows glaciers and ice fields. Created by plate collision, pushing and folding mountains along with erosion.

Waterton Plains Alberta for Interior Plains because: shows the vast area of grassland yet with rolling hills and even though the plains are dry it shows some of the coniferous and mixed forest. Created from soils carried from the shield in rivers to layer upon one another.

Lake; Ontario for Canadian Shield because: shows it as flat bare rock and surrounded by water as erosion and weathering has brought it down to. not very populated. Weathering caused the once volcanic mountain range to diminish to flat areas.

Innuitian Mountain for Arctic region because: good example of fold mountains. Composed of sedimentary rock and covered in snow. The shield pushed rock thus forming the fold mountains.

St. Lawrence River for St. Lawrence lowlands because: very green flat fertile soil. Patches of orchards an farming with water source. When ice melted and then grew and froze once more it pushed the soil underneath causing the lowlands.

Appalachian Mountain region: shows the fjord and mineral deposits. Mountain and highlands. Sedimentary rock. Made by weathering and erosion of mountain ranges and glaciers.