Atlantic Canada Flashcards
What are the two parts of At Canada
- the maritimes (nova scotia, PEI and New Brunswick)
- Newfoundland Labrador
what is atlantic canada’s weak economic performance attributed to
- political division into 4 provinces (unorganized cant form one government to equalize)
- exhausted resources
- dispersed population
- distance from markets
Atlantic Canada has a dependence on Ottawa for what
Economic support
what are prospects for Atlantic Canada
the discovery of offshore oil and gas deposits
a huge shipbuilding contract from Ottawa
what are the physiographic regions of atlantic canada
Appalachian Uplands
Canadian shield
what causes unsettled weather conditions
the proximity to the atlantic
continental and marine air masses meet and cause cool wet summers and heavy snowfall winters
the meeting of labrador current and gulf stream also create extreme fog
what are the climatic zones
atlantic subarctic and arctic
What falls under the atlantic climatic zone
maritimes and newfoundland
influenced by warm, moist air from caribbean sea and gulf of mexico also arctic storm track dominates the winter
What falls under the subarctic zone
labrador interior which has a boreal forest
what falls under the arctic climatic zone
northern labrador and along the coast
“land fast ice” is Greenland icebergs that come to the coastline by the labrador current. Theres cool summers and tundra vegetation
Muskrat Falls
Hydro project with concerns of
flooding Indigenous lands and
producing methylmercury
Sydney Tar Ponds
toxic waste from sydney steel co and sysco
during 1998-2002 $400 million cleanup project
Scottish Highland clearances
, the forced eviction of inhabitants of the Highlands and western islands of Scotland, beginning in the mid-to-late 18th century and continuing intermittently into the mid-19th century. The removals cleared the land of people primarily to allow for the introduction of sheep pastoralism. The Highland Clearances resulted in the destruction of the traditional clan society and began a pattern of rural depopulation and emigration from Scotland.
Clans, Collectives, And The Jac
Atlantic canada was the first part of North America to be __________ by _________
Europeans, John Cabot 1497
what were the next waves of immigration to Atlantic Canada
The Loyalists after the American Rev. (late 1700)
and the scots, irish and welsh due to Scottish Highland Clearances and Irish Potato famine
who were the original populance of atlantic canada
the Mi’kmaq
Early history saw resource exploitation of
cod and forests
What was the “Golden Age if Sail”
By 1840 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick became the hot spot for ship building due to forestry and nice weather
Why did newfoundland originally have a slow economical start
because they focused on cod fishery and coastal settlements
what were atlantic exports and imports
ex cod and timber
in manufactured goods from england, and sugar and rum from west indies
what were two benefits for Atlantic canadians with joining confederation
monthly payments for each child a mother bared and unemployment insurance for seasonal workers
why did Ottawa extend the branch for Atlantic Canada to join confederation?
after wwII AT CAN became intertwined with american lifestyle etc.. Ottawa feared they would fall under american influence.
At what times did atlantic canada join confederation
maritimes 1867 (2/4)
PEI 1873
Newfoundland 1949
what are economic positives
Offshore oil and gas (dependent on
price rebound)
Mining/processing of nickel
Tourism, Shellfish, Shipbuilding
Knowledge-based economy in Halifax
