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
