Early 1800’s Canada

 

1. a.

This picture represents farming. Farming was very important because most of the people who moved here to Canada were expecting different circumstances. Most of the economical system was based of barter. So many people traded instead of buying.

b.

What we see here is social class. Social Class was clearly visible to everyone. Social class separated the wealthy from the poor. You saw that in the way they talked, acted, where they lived and where they worked.

c.

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The second picture there is a church and small buildings on the left. The first picture is the same town with a lot more development AND the church is also still there. So clearly its important. If it wasn’t they wouldn’t have had it up in the first picture.

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This is the Land Map. The shaded in area are part clergy reserves and the other part is the governments land. All the other non shaded parts of the map belong to the immigrants that came to Canada. Also most of the land that the clergy and government owned was the best land available, so immigrants also didn’t have the best farming land either.

e.

Loyalty in Britain. if you were to ask a anyone in Canada and they would say that they’re loyal to Britain. In the picture above you can see a British flag in the middle of the camp.

Socials Unit Project

Zack, Max

Cordillera: I think people should visit Barkerville. For the reason of history and gold. History goes back till the forty-niners a baseball team called after the same year that the Gold Rush started.

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Interior Plains: The Calgary Stampede Rodeo is a place where you go get a thrill of watching other people getting pounded on by huge angry bulls. Its a place you go to have fun and enjoy the show.

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Canadian Shield: There isn’t much to do here. But if you like the outdoors and hiking and camping this is the place to do it.

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St. Lawrence Lowlands: The Most visited site is the Fredric Remington Museum. it has many interesting facts and you get to learn lots about history.

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Appalachians: The Loop Trail is very famous because is displays much history about the Appalachians. I personally like hiking and I would recommend this is to you also.

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Arctic: The North Pole. I would definitely go o see the north pole if I was just passing by the Arctic.

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Topography and Vegetation

The Topography of the Appalachian region is an extension of the Appalachian Mountains, it began in the southeastern United States and end in the maritime provinces of Canada. The landscape looks like rolling hills, valleys, small mountains, highlands, and coastal fjords, what is left of an older mountain range worn down by glaciers and by millions of years of erosion. Igneous rock is present as a result of ancient volcanic activity, as is metamorphic rock, which is formed by hear and pressure. You will also find, Coniferous Forest, Open Woodland, Tundra, and Mixed Forest in the Appalachian region.

 

The Canadian Shields Regions topography, stretches from the arctic islands south to the United States boarder, and east across Labrador. The shield had once been a volcanic mountain range, over hundreds of years of erosion and weathering, not to forget about the glaciers, that all had worn down the landscape to bare rocks, wet and flat lands, also lakes. After millions of years of erosion and weathering, especially the action of the glaciers, it has worn down the land to a landscape of flat, bare rocks, lakes, and wetlands. You will also find, Open Woodland, Coniferous Forest, Tundra, Subarctic, and Mixed Forest in the Canadian Shield region.

 

The Arctic Regions topography includes mountains, plains, and lowlands. The pressure at the northeastern part of the Canadian Shield pushed up the sedimentary rock to form, Fold Mountains. The lowlands are composed of sedimentary rock, they have deposits of oil and natural gas. The possibility of increase shipping through the arctic waters has raised concerns among the Inuit, who rely on the wildlife of the regions for their food and clothing, the Canadian government and environmentalist have the same fear. You will also find, Tundra and Subarctic in the Arctic region.

 

The St. Lawrence Lowlands this region was mostly formed by retreating sheets of ice that mostly covered Canada in ice age. The ice sheets pushed soil from the shield to where the lowlands are today. As the ice melted giant lakes formed, larger lakes remanded as bluffs. Between the old shore lines and the present lakes, fertile areas of well-drained sandy soils were left behind. These areas now make up the rich agricultural land around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. You will also find, Coniferous Forest, Mixed Forest in the St. Lawrence Lowlands region.

 

The Interior Plains region stretches from the Canadian shield to the Cordillera Mountains, the interior plains were formed as soils carried by rivers from the Canadian shield were deposited at its edge. These deposits formed horizontal layers of sedimentary layers to form large deposits of fossil fuels, natural gas, oil and evaporites such as potash are some of those. The wide, grassland and flat spaces were ideal for grazing animals such as bison, later it was turned into vast farms and cattle ranches. The “Dirty Thirties,” as the 1930s became known, saw the ruin of crops due to drought, The wend blew the soil away, creating large dust storms, because the large areas were so dry. You will also find, Parkland, Grassland, Coast and Interior Forest, Coniferous Forest, Open Woodland, Tundra in the Interior Plains region.

 

The Cordillera region is made up of parallel mountain ranges separated by a series of plateaus, trenches, and valleys in British Columbia and the Yukon. The diverse landscape, which also includes dormant volcanoes, glaciers, and ice fields, are all a part of the vast chain of mountains that stretches from Alaska to chile. The youngest landforms in Canada were formed when play collision caused the earths crust to buckle, pushing and folding volcanic rock into mountains. This plate movement is called plate tectonics, also caused the formation of trenches, valleys, plateaus.Erosion from rivers and glaciers created the rugged, mountainous landscape seen today. You will also find, Coast and Interior Forest, Grassland, Parkland, Tundra, Coniferous Forest, Open Woodland, Subarctic in the Cordillera region.

Human-Environmental Interaction

 

Numbers Employed by Industry (By Thousand) Agriculture Forestry, Mining, Fishing, Oil and Gas Manufacture Services
Cordillera 305.1 372.6 1,711.0 5,459.2
St.Lawrence Lowlands 79.8 28.6 737.2 5,511.7
Interior Plains 58.9 178.4 148.8 121.6
Canadian Shield 54.0 30.1 483.5 182.0
Appalachians 3.9 2.6 5.7 3.5
Arctic 1,451.0 1,297 2,295.0 896.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

GDP by Industry Agriculture Forestry, Mining, Fishing, Oil and Gas Manufacture Services
Cordillera 3,736.0 1,672.0 4,561.0 1,371,8.0
St. Lawrence Lowlands 5,041.5 7,901,200.0 75,140,600.0 450,950.6
Interior Plains 142,923 25,516 15,095,675 86,720,046
Canadian Shield 2.1% 1.5% 12.2% 15.0%
Appalachians 25,902 133,563 171,563 1,165,327
Arctic 30.o 1,109.1 15.8 91.5

Population/Topography:
The topography affects where people choose to live because it take a lot more resouces and cost to get up into the mountains or hills let alone get electricity and running water there too.
More people tend to live on flatter land.
Population/Climate:
The majority of people like to live on flatter land.
The climate around the flatter lands are more moderate and cooler.

Climate Graph of Canada population-distribution-canadaTopography of Canada

Citations:

“Google.” Google. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. <https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1368&bih=599&q=topographic map of canada&oq=topographic map of canada&gs_l=img.3…0.0.1.744.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0….0…1ac..64.img..2.9.2262.iz7-kELj8fQ>.

“Gross Domestic Product at Basic Prices, by Industry (monthly).” Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/gdps04a-eng.htm>.

 

Socials Presentation

1. P.E.I                                                                       People by the Thousands                                 Max, Zach

Goods producing sector – 18.0

Agriculture – 3.7

Forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying, oil and gas – 2.5

Utilities 0.3

Construction – 5.8

Manufacturing – 5.6

Service producing sector – 56.1

Trade – 11.0

Transportation and warehousing – 2.9

Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing – 2.3

Professional scientific technical services – 2.9

Businesses, building and other support services – 2.3

Educational services – 5.6

Health care and social assistance – 10.5

Information, culture and recreation – 2.6

Accommodation and food services – 5.5

Other services – 3.3

Public administration – 7.0

Goods and producing sector is the highest employer in P.E.I.

2. P.E.I                                                                     Annual Percentage Share

service producing industries – 51.71

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting – 1.66

mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction – 29.50

manufacturing – 4.01

retail trade – 5.18

professional, scientific and technical services – 2.44

educational services – 4.76

accommodation and food services – 7.18

3. P.E.I Agriculture – Company name is Doucette Farms, 82 Point Red Road, Johnston’s River Prince Edward Island, Canada. C1B 3C7. About half of the Doucette’s farm is woodland, providing habitat’s for local wildlife as well as supplying much of the timber that Michael used to build his family’s home. The landscape around the farm is a patchwork of agriculture fields interspersed with woodlands that help to reduce the erosion and shields the crops from the wind.   pic_about Citations: 2. 3. “Doucette Organics – Certified Organic Vegetables and Fruit – PEI, Canada – Home.” Doucette Organics – Certified Organic Vegetables and Fruit – PEI, Canada – Home. Web. 18 Sept. 2015. <http://www.doucetteorganics.ca/index.asp>. 

“Employment by Major Industry Group, Seasonally Adjusted, by Province (monthly) (Prince Edward Island).” Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. Web. 18 Sept. 2015. <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/labr67c-eng.htm>.

“ERROR.” Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. Web. 21 Sept. 2015. <http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retr/lang=eng&id=3790028&&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=31&tab/mode=dataTable&csid>.

 

Socials Questions

Max

 

If we had global warming I think it WOULD be a problem because if it got warmer, people that don’t like rain will start to move to places that previously had rain but now don’t… That could be bad if more and more people start moving to Vancouver and if the population becomes more and more dense that could be bad, but if more and more people start spreading out in B.C. then more people could fit into an even bigger area.