North America III

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C A N A D A
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Main Street Cluster
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Three other clusters that are part of Canadas
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Canadian Urban Spatial Changes

• Maurice Yeates
• Developed a model to explain Canadas urban
  system
• Views cities as points in a network that interact
  with one another and serve the hinterlands
• Similar to Borcherts model
• Included 3 developmental eras
• Frontier-Staples Era (lt1935)
• Era of Industrial Capitalism (1935-1975)
• Era of Global Capitalism (since 1975)

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Francophone Quebec
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The Quebec Question

• Province with secessionist tendency
• Culturally different (French-speaking)
• 1995 referendum ? non!
• Increase in acknowledgement of difference
• Nation within the Canadian federation
• High degree of autonomy
• French significant part of cultural landscape

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Regions of the Realm

• North American core
• Maritime northeast
• French Canada
• Continental interior
• South
• Southwest
• Western frontier
• Northern frontier
• Pacific hinge

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Regions of the Realm
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North American Core

• Synonymous with the manufacturing belt, now the
  rustbelt
• Contains largest city and capital of both
  countries
• Extensive transportation networks and facilities
• Growing impact of postindustrial development and
  globalization

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Maritime Northeast
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• Upper New England and the Atlantic provinces
• Economic focus
• Primary activities
• Recreation
• Tourism
• Prospects for regional economic stability?

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French Canada

• The southern portion of Quebec and neighboring
  Acadia
• Long lots land division system
• Impact of Quebec's separatist movement
• Montreal

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Continental Interior

• Center of conterminous U.S. and
• southern Canada
• Tremendous agricultural productivity
• Corn and wheat belts
• Geography of soybeans
• Important urban service centers

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South

• Southeast corner of the realm
• Most dynamic region in terms of change
• Poverty and income disparity
• Changing demographics
• Booming economy

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Southwest

• US-Mexican borderland
• A tri-cultural region?
• Sunbelt
• Water issues

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Western Frontier

• Realms newest region
• Population influx
• The Las Vegas boom
• Other metropolises
• Denver
• Salt lake city
• Economic changes

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Northern Frontier

• North of 52N latitude
• North America's largest region
• Frontier status
• Indigenous peoples
• Economic activities

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Pacific Hinge

• Pacific coastlands of the conterminous U.S. and
  SW Canada
• Significance of hinge?
• Legacy of 20th century continuous growth
• Balance between development and the environment
• Natural hazards

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