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•Canada’s eastern Economic region
•Provinces of New Brunswick,Prince Edwards Island,Nova Scotia,the island of Newfoundland, and
the gaspe region of Quebec.
•Major land resources such as fish, forest and farmland.
•Mineral deposits such as lead,zinc and coal.
•Coal Mining in the time of confederation was used 2/3 in Canada.
•Steel manufacturing was traded a lot with the the US and Britain.
•Natural harbors.
•Oil and natural gas reserves off the coast of Newfoundland.
•Potato farming in PEI and New Brunswick and orchards in Nova Scotia.
•Harsh climate in Newfoundland,settlement remaining low. More fertile land in more southern areas
of the region and not as harsh climate settlement grew quickly.
•Forest in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were prized as masts for naval ships and also harvest
pulp and paper mills.
•Time of confederation Halifax and Saint John had internationally imported dockyards and
shipbuilding facilities. Making Advance in The Steamboat and iron ships.
•Canada’s power increased and eventually came in to control of the region’s Mining,financial, and
limited manufacturing industries after confederation.Changing markets and technology,depleted
resources, and reliance on resource-based activities led to the region’s economic decline, relative
•In The Atlantic region regional disparity has been and remains a chronic issue. But today
cod and ground fish stocks are depleting the fishing industry, changing the Atlantic economy.
•Environmental issues, such as changes in water temperature,pollution, and seal pollution
plays a factor in changing in the Atlantic community.
•In other industries such as the Agricultural industry business has sky rocketed leaving
many more people with jobs such as farming, trucking, and equipment manufacturing.
•The Hibernia oil field holds more promise for the Atlantic region, except where the
Environmental issues come in.
•Newfoundland and the Atlantic region stands
up to not only oil royalties and job opportunities,
The Atlantic Region
but from optimism at a time when older
industries are in decline.
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Smallest economic
region
Occupies less then 2
percent of the nations total
land area.
Geographically the
region consists of fertile
low lands and mild climate
The St. Lawrence and
the Great Lakes both
valuable resources and
superb waterways
European contact
brought the fur trade, and
better settlement and the
beginnings of
manufacturing.
Water transportation routes
connected the various comminutes
and allowed raw materials to be
transported.
As lumbering increased, more
land was cleared, and agriculture
and decrement expanded.
By the confederation,
manufacturing of iron and steal,
clothing, saw mills, breweries, and
even an oil refinery, became major
component of the economy.
 strategically close to the
booming U.S.
Eventually linked up to the
railway to Atlantic and the western
provinces.
 Known as Canada’s Industrial
Heartland
 Became Canada’s financial center
 In late decades of twentieth century,
the automotive sector dominated the
regions manufacturing.
 U.S automotive giants ford, chiseler,
and general motors, have long
operated plants here
 Region provides a pool of skilled
labors and a strong infrastructure
 Japanese automakers Honda, and
Toyota also have points based here.
 High-tech industries also expanded
and reshaped the economy
 Many high-tech companies located
here.
 In a world of high finance this region
is still on top
 Most of Canada’s banks, trust
companies, and insurance
companies have head offices in this
region
 Both are very polluted.
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Great Lakes also has an abundant supply of
electrical.
Home of more than half of Canada’s
population
Largest market in Canada
Golden horse shoe is heavily industrialized
and densely populated.
Severe environmental damage has resulted
from industrial waste, and smog
 Canada’s largest economic region
 It included all of Labrador, Ontario,
Quebec, eastern tip of Baffin Island and,
east and south of Great bear lake.
 The shield Region has many deposits, like
nickel, copper, gold, silver, lead, and zinc.
 Before European contact, native groups
like the Ojibwa, fished for a living and for
food.
 Fur trade, forestry, pulp, and paper
became major industries.
 In 1901a logia steel dominated
 In 1902 INCO was formed(international
Nickel Company)
 INCO was to mine some of the world’s
richest deposits of nickel, copper, and
silver.
 INCO soon built many smelters, the built
them in Sudbury, Ontario and Thompson,
and Manitoba where is sold it’s products
around the world.
Massive Hydroelectric developments
flooded watersheds and threatened the lives
of many aboriginal people.The government
has responded by imposing emission
Reduction programs, environmental
reviews, and aboriginal
consultations.But the issues are far
from being resolved.
The minerals and metals are
commodities that change in value of
global demand and supply
If a region is heavily dependent on the
mining it might have struggles.
When a mine closes the own around it
may disperse or struggle to survive.
Schefferville, Quebec, the Ion Ore
Company closed
In 1981 world prices were too low for
the company to make any profit
 Occupies a vast area of Canada’s
landmass.
 It’s western limit cuts into a corner
of the Yukon of the Beaufort Sea.
 The boundary swings east and
south through the Northwest
Territories and Nunavut, skirts the
northern area of Manitoba and
Ontario along Hudson Bay, and
swings north again to include the
northwestern tip of Québec and
most of Baffin Island.
 Most of it is above the tree line,
north of the line of continuous
permafrost.
 The landscape is stark and the
climate is harsh.
 Waterway is frozen during wither.
 Long cold dark winters.
 The north region consists of
mountains, plateaus, lowlands
and high lands.
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The northern portion of the Interior
Plains.
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The region fallows the contour of the
Canadian shield on the east.
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On the west it reaches to the Western
Mountains.
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It includes the southern portions of
Manitpba and Saskatchewa, most of the
Alberta and the northeastern corner of
BC.
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In the north, the prairie tapers
off and turns, occuping a samll
section of the Yykon
Consists primarily of rolling
plains, which gradually slope
downwardin 3 levels from west
to east.
Natives in this region hunted
bison.
Europeans were focuced on the
fur trade.
Many settlers came after
confederation and the building
of railways, and changed the
aboriginals way of life forever.
Forestry was a huge activity I
the prairies.
By 1914,most of the natural
grasslands in the southern
areas had been ploughes under.
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More than 80% of Canada’s farmland is
located here.
In 1914 oil was discovered.
As in other regions, population has become
increasingly urbanized.
Technological change has led to fewer and
larger farms and a drastic reduction in the
number of people employed in faming.
The Prairie Region now has a number of
metropolitan areas. Such as Edmonton,
Calgary, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon.
The region’s economy is still largely
resource-based and subject to global price
cycles. But continuing investment in our
sectors
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