GPHY 250 Lecture Notes - Pinnacle Point, Coruscant, Great Lakes
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Conflict and conquest: the historic shaping of the canadian landscape. Most of us say it was the british who started the war of 1812 while we teach it was a conflict between us and canada over territory. Both sides were invading each others territories. Glorified by canadians because it became a pinnacle point in defining canada as a nation, we stood stand side by side, as a unified canada . North america is very european and western view. Dominant views on history and how it may leave things out. They look at how the events refelect in out current relationships: this discipline is very much created on a western geographers, and white academics, it dosent pertain to the rest of the world. Existensivly graphic group, an extensive amount of land and people that is controlled by a monarch. This large geographical land has diverse land and people. This is important in canada"s history because we come from the british.