CITB01H3 Lecture : Lec 2 CITB01.docx
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As long as it take cares of one of the 5 main side roles. We plan events over a span of time, we need to be committed, develop a definition of urban development. Lecture s overview: trying to understand urban development from the history. Canada was populated before european settlers came in but settlements remained small among the aboriginals. Hudsons bay company, fur was the main dominant and made canada what it is today. Back then any kind of economic development was discard. Colonial trading was used to extract resources that could help the european settlers. Fur trade did not require much labour power. Natives were used as guides to something that was called hingerland, a plain piece of land. Canada s population overall remained small in comparison with usa. Famous theory by harold innis called staples theory we can develop canada based on natural resources. Competition with the motherland, canada was conolized mainly for the extraction of fur.
