SOCI 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bytown, Kapuskasing
17 Apr 2016
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European industrialization: european demands for industrial workers for the industrializing cities (manchester) that the surrounding countryside was drained of citizens. Everyone that could find a job in the city, did. Urban growth emptied out the countryside this is distinctively not what happened all over canada: incredible explosion of resources. Decisions at confederation: acquisition of rupert"s land and other northern territories that belonged to. Wasn"t expected that canada could gain this land but. British seceded and canada became on formal chunk of land. Minus alaska: railroad across continent entailed automatically that railroad stations would be built. This was the creation of many cities in small secluded areas that wouldn"t have had cities for any other reason: concentration of industrial development in the qu bec-to-windsor corridor. Toronto at the time was not all that, was struggling: political model different from usa. Usa had created centuries earlier, a strong federal government, states between strength.
