Geography 2010A/B Chapter 1: Chapter 1 - Regions of Canada.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2010A/B
• Professor: Mark Moscicki

Document Summary

Both are products of a region"s physical geography, historical event & economic situation. Landscapes are associated with a sense of placelessness landscapes do not have local roots. Local roots stem from the physical nature, human activities, and institutional bodies found in a region: ex. In vernacular, western canada is anything west of ontario but that would include british columbia: in textbook, western canada refers to the three prairie provinces alberta, saskatchewan, and. Traditional core is not about to be replaced, it may be losing economic power on a relatively basis but it takes more than just that to become the core. Edmonton / calgary function as an urban system, almost joined urban areas significant interaction between them (close geographic proximity: vancouver & edmonton / calgary are certainly growing in power, both of them are regional cores within. Canada but not national core: there are other regional heartlands winnipeg (core for the eastern part of the western canada),