GEO 793 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cultural Capital, Ukiyo, Spray Painting
4 Apr 2017
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*download all attached videos for offline viewing in planes/trains. De-glaciation of the continent opened up places for settlement on the americas. Asia and alaska had a land bridge 10,000 years ago. Ancient toronto: after the ice sheets retreated from southern ontario, lake iroquois formed, with its shoreline located along the ridge at davenport hill. The lake drained to the atlantic ocean through. New york until the st. lawrence river opened about 11,700 years ago. Lake ontario then rose to its modern 19,000-square-kilometre size over a period of many thousands of years. Don valley: glacier meltwater, not river, carved it out. Original shoreline was further into lake ontario, thus buried. Spadina: ishpadinaa hill or sudden eise in land, canada: kanata, the village. Decolonization: looking at colonialism as a process that dispossessed indigenous peoples around the world from the land and the natural resources needed for survival. Attempting to correct this injustice that was based on racism, greed, and injustice.
