Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Coastal Erosion, Positive Force, Transportation Planning
25 Apr 2017
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Settlement patterns around ancestry great lakes. 60,000 117,000 in the 1500s weren"t counting indigenous people so numbers are off. 1500s: passage to the orient: came to upper canada, not to stay but to see if they can find new passage to orient, found resources (beaver pellets) 1600s: fur trade begins: french and english struggle for domination. 1775: american revolution: pushes people nirth (population surge), america wants to expand in land and north for resources. 1791: upper canada defined: population 15,000, all europeans. 1812: last military challenge for the lakes: population of upper canada about 90,000, fight about where border should be, nobody won. Early 1900s: population two million, half rural. 1904: ford motor company manufactured in windsor, silver discovered at cobalt in northern ontario, economic interaction, looking/finding resources. 1906: niagara falls harnessed, ontario hydro-electric commission. 1911 1913: one million people immigrated to canada, most settling in ontario, migration either needs a pull (free land, jobs) or push factor (war, oppression)
