Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Solar Transition Region, Resource-Based Economy, Staples Thesis
28 Mar 2018
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A sense of place involves a psychological bond between people and their location; these stem from the physical landscape of the area, human activities, and institutional bodies (churches, schools collective experience as a culture. It recognizes that collective experiences have led to shared aspirations, concerns, goals and values. Strong sense of place in canada are particularly evident in atlantic canada & prairies: atlantic (different culture, accent, prairies (different weather, activities) Atlantic canada (covers 4 provinces pei, nova scotia, new brunswick & newfoundland) Population ontario and quebec make up 62% of. As you can see that there has been a dramatic increase in the prairie (due to the oil industry); huge shift towards the west [including bc] Quebec is losing people (hard to maintain culture and language) It is based on a theory that capitalist economics result in regionally uneven development (one small area of the country grows rapidly while the areas in outer areas grow slowly)
