GEOG 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marquis Wheat, Area Studies, Population Geography
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**4 traditions patterson article on moodle: physical science, relationship between humans and their environment, spatial analysis, area studies regional perspective. Aboriginal population has fallen from 100%, at the point of. European contact, to less than 5% of the total today. The percentage of french-speaking canadians has declined from. 82% canada"s population is urbanized, amongst the highest percentage in the g7. 1/3 of canadians live in the big 3. The rate of natural increase has been declining since the mid- Canada"s population is increasingly more ethnically diverse and is aging. Canada"s population has become more ethnically diverse-by. Locus of population growth has shifted from eastern canada to western canada. Pre sustained european contact prior to 1400. Pre contact: indigenous population estimated at between. By 1867: population declines by between 50-80% Two ways of immigration: 45,000 loyalists, nearly 1,000,000 from british isles. Economy of canada went through bought of depression: 1851-1861 annual population growth rate 3, net loss of 500,000 people.
