History 2120A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Rand Formula, Monetarism, Coalition Labour
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Existing operations expand through investment and science, producing 20 different metals instead of 4 from before. Mining boom: iron mining on border of. Quebec and newfoundland, 3 mining towns, lot of youth worked on mines. Oil: beginning of alberta as an oil rich place, oil sands still a curiosity, spinoff natural gas. Agriculture: farmers are workers and businessmen at the same time, Mining: we still mine a lot, but the difference is that companies that mine are from other countries. This looked like the indication that we were gonna ne the next superpower, but with the low price of oil, it is not easy to make money on oil, since its costly to take oil out of ground. Cod fish, found in canada by the. Europeans, not very pretty but good for health, europeans gained from codfish trade, in part due to the emergence of catholics in. Europe, not allowed to eat beef cod was also cheaper than beef.