Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gypsum, Platinum Group, Nepheline Syenite
25 Apr 2017
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Primary: extraction of raw materials: canada built on primary resources, extracting resources, that"s why immigrants came here. Secondary: conversion into product: make more money, basic as processing, refining, or milling, advanced manufacturing like building a car or tv, transforming primary resources to products. Tertiary: provision of services: providing services, health care, teaching, care taking, restaurants. Quaternary: collection, processing, and distribution of information: information, communication. Vast majority now is tertiary and quaternary. History of canada is primary and secondary. Immigrants: coming from europe for fetile land and start farming, great lakes lowlands were gone by 1850, if wanted agricultural land had to look further west because lots of people were consumed by land. Canals for export for better shipping in 1800s. Southern ontario: great lakes and st. lawrence lowlands is the best part because of quality of soil. Ontario leads canada in total $ value of farm produce. (cid:883)/(cid:886) of canada"s (cid:884)(cid:884)(cid:891),(cid:885)(cid:889)(cid:885) farms in (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:888)
