Lecture 10 - Territorial North Flashcards
What are Territorial North disadvantages?
- Far from world markets
- resource development hampered by cold climate
- economy sensitive to outside world
What are Territorial North advantages?
rich in minerals and wealth
What has climate change done for TN
warmer weather allowed more access to territories
Territorial North 2015 stats
- 0.3 percent population of Canada
- 39 percent area of Canada
- 0.3 percent GDP
- 16 percent unemployment
- 1.1 percent French mother tongue
- 52.4 percent Indigenous Canadians
What are its physical geography
- Canadian Shield
- arctic and sub arctic, short summer
- seals and wildlife plentiful
- diamonds, gold, uranium, zinc
Where is the tallest peak in Canada
Yukon, Mt Logan 6000m
What is its historical geography?
- 7 Inuit groups, 7 Indian groups at the time of settlement
What did Inuit depend on?
fur trade and whaling, used kayak, snowshoes, bow & arrows
when did whaling peak?
1840’s
When and where was Klondike Gold Rush
1897 Dawson city
what was its military strategic plan?
1880 WW2 1939-45 military bases, radar stations
Who landed in Arctic?
16th century Ferbacher
What is the Northwest Passage
arctic ocean, where ice is melting because of climate change allowing ships to cross over more easily
What are the Northern Territory land claim settlements?
Yukon, Nunavut, Nunavik, Inuvialuit, Sahtu, Gwich’in, Deh Cho, South Slavey, Tlicho
What are the name of the boats that go through ice?
Icebreakers
Why are they political hinterlands
- fewer power then provincial governments
- territorial government depend on Ottawa for transfer payments
How was the land settlement settled
by treaties
Who holds most of the resources
Northwest Territories - oil/natural gas, diamond mine
What resources does Yukon have
diamonds
What resources does Nunavut have
diamonds, gold, oil
NWT provide how much of world supply of diamonds
15 percent, 2 mines
how much rock is extracted
40 million tonnes sorted by x-ray
what stages do diamonds go through in NWT
operation, process, and sell
what are positives of diamond industry
Yellowknife (workers, diamond cutting, and polishing businesses)
What are negatives of diamond industry
- non-renewable resource
- lifespan of projects - boom and bust
- based on world demand
- failed to diversify the northern economy
What does the future of the Territorial North look like?
- do not have financial freedom
- resource frontier & homeland
- how will they diversify economy
- boom and bust economic cycles
- dependent on Ottawa
