GEOG 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Kewatinook, Canadian Shield
3 May 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
GEOG 1410
November 30, 2017
How did we get so big?
World’s largest real-estate deal.
How big
● 9.9 million square kilometers, 2nd largest landmass.
● Turtle Island is contested
● 1866 BC becomes a province
● 1867 is Confederation - Plot by finance capital - desire to expand
● How did Canada acquire this territory?
● What were the outcomes?
Canadian Shield is Geographical foundation for Canada
Highest enlistment rate in WW1
Beaver pelt is colonial commodity
Vital to the economic foundation of the Nation-State of Canada
Where Two Worlds Meet - Indigenous and European
Brutal transportation labour - very hard work - labour was essential to the economic
foundation of Canada
Northwest Trade Company fundamental
Prince Rupert
● Cousin of Charles the Second
Ruperstland
Whose land is it?
● Indigenous - however there is two claims for the land
● Americans revolted due to rights being given to the first nations with the Royal
Proclamation 1763
● Mercantile Claim
● Indigenous claim
● World’s Largest Real Estate deal - 2.9 million square miles
● Era of railway building
● Negotiations 1868-69
● Rupertsland Act (69)
Document Summary
9. 9 million square kilometers, 2nd largest landmass. 1867 is confederation - plot by finance capital - desire to expand. Vital to the economic foundation of the nation-state of canada. Where two worlds meet - indigenous and european. Brutal transportation labour - very hard work - labour was essential to the economic foundation of canada. Indigenous - however there is two claims for the land. Americans revolted due to rights being given to the first nations with the royal. World"s largest real estate deal - 2. 9 million square miles.
