Lecture 1

Question 1

How did Halfacree define rural?

Answer 1

as an abstract social representation, a set of rules and resources existing out of space and time

Question 2

What are different names for the north?

Answer 2

Les pays d'en haut (the land up there)
northwest
frontier
wilderness
nunavut (our land)

Question 3

Louis Edmond Hamelin

Answer 3

geographer who attempted to define the concept of north by using quantitative methods to develop what he called valeurs polaire (polar value system)

Question 4

What is the polar value system?

Answer 4

scoring system designed to measure the concept of nordicity

Question 5

What do the levels of latitude closer to the poles produce?

Answer 5

Long summer days, short winter days, generally colder winter temperatures due to less direct sunlight

Question 6

Hamelin’s Criteria for North (10)

Answer 6

latitude
summer heat
annual cold
types of ice (frozen ground, floating ice, glaciers and snow cover)
total precipitation
natural vegetation cover
accessibility other than by air
air services
resident or wintering population (number of inhabitants in settlement, population density of the area)
degree of economic activity

Question 7

What is the hart highway an example of?

Answer 7

a transportation corridor that has been used to connect the north for political and economic reasons

Question 8

Hinterland

Answer 8

the land behind the port that the port serves

• describes where few people live, and where the infrastructure is underdeveloped
• also called back country or the bush
• the area of surrounding a service from which the customers are attached
  example: Vancouver