Lecture 5 - Atlantic Canada Flashcards
What did Atlantic Canada benefit from?
Had a historical head start
Where was the first settlements in Canada?
Atlantic
Who were apart of the Acadians?
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Maine, PEI
When and what did the American Revolution do?
1776, brought further settlement, 40,000
What were the first industries?
Timbre and fishery
What was the fall of Atlantic
overtime became isolated from rest of Canada
Who is John Cabot
Discovered Newfoundland June 24 1497
When did French maritimes get kicked out by British?
1700s
What is the significance of Halifax’s water
Deep water, excellent port, ship building centre for British empire and great for trading
What are Atlantic natural resources
Forestry, Mining (coal), Agriculture, Fish
What was great about fishing industry?
- excellent physical environment
- structure of industry (inshore, offshore fish-processing) able to use big and small boats
- modernization and new technology (dragger boats)
What did new technology do to fishing industry?
decrease cod stocks, dragger boats - bad for seafloor bed - catching other things as well as fish, disturbed ecosystem, destroyed fish environment
What problems has the Gulf of Maine created?
- difficult to enforce water boundaries
- political contentious, people fishing on both sides of the border
What is tragedy of the commons?
The tragedy of the commons is a problem that occurs when individuals exploit a shared resource to the extent that demand overwhelms supply and the resource becomes unavailable to some or all.
- cod stock decreases, both sides overfished, mismanagement
How was fisheries mismanage?
- Ottawa set the cod stock quota too high
- Strong support for high quota from Newfoundland politicians, fishers, and communities
- Canada has no control over nose and tail of Grand Banks
- no one was thinking about the future because everyone was doing well
What did government do to help low cod stock?
They put a moratorium on cod, an indefinite pause on production until can figure out what to do,
What were the ecological issues?
- draggers
- destruction of fragile ecosystems
- drastic decrease in biomass and spawning biomass
What did climate change do for Atlantic?
increased tourism, people come to see icebergs float by
Where is the least urbanized region of Canada?
Atlantic Canada
What is the largest city in Atlantic Canada?
Halifax, but only 13th in Canada because few jobs
What is Canada population Change compared to Atlantic?
3.5% increase, Atlantic 1.8% increase, western boom, east moving west, oil sands
What kind of city is Halifax?
Gateway and port city, train connect to port and across Canada
What is happening to small towns?
being bought out, population too small, rural towns moving to urban towns
What are some opportunities for Atlantic Canada’s future?
- offshore oil
- Atlantic Gateway expansion - convenient for Post-Panamax ships, needs Federal and Provincial partnership
- Additional oil and gas discoveries
- development of energy projects like hydro
- recovery of cod fish stocks
- tourism - biggest industry in the world
- growth of high-tech industry
