Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: North South Mrt Line, Foreign Born, Baby Boom
20 Dec 2017
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Native peoples: arrived about 10,000 years ago, settlement patterns living around the ancestor great lakes, they are melt water, people were moving around the edges of the water. 1600"s: fur trade begins: french and english struggle for domination, there were lots of resources in ontario and the two groups were fighting over them. 1787: us ordinance develop the lakes: claiming resources associated with the great lakes. 1791: upper canada defined: population: 15,000 people (of european descent) 1812: last military challenge for the lakes: britain vs. Us for the great lakes: population of upper canada about 90,000. 4 provinces coming together: ontario, quebec, nova scotia and new brunswick form a federal union: dominion of canada, capital of canada = ottawa, capital of ontario = york (changed the name to toronto) Early 1900"s - population 2 million, half living in cities and half living in agricultural lands.
