GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Golden Square Mile, Dofasco, Arable Land
13 Sep 2020
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The first factor is a region"s access to resources. The industrial heartland had a myriad of british and american investors. Once consequence of the policy was the emergence of a branch plant economy, in. Southern ontario and southern quebec - by 1950, approximately 1 2 of canadian manufacturing firms were american owned: the fourth factor is corporate policy (which includes mergers and amalgamations to create economies of scale. In the canadian steel industry, for example, the two largest firms, (the former steel. Company of canada (stelco) and dominion foundries and steel (dofasco), were located in hamilton), were both products of amalgamations in the early 20th century: the fifth factor is immigration. In summary, a variety of social, economic, and geographic factors produced the concentration of industry in southern ontario and southern quebec. Industrialization were mutually reinforcing processes, meaning that each perpetuates or is dependent on the other - the theme of metropolitan dominance (first montreal then.
