GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: James Ussher, Piltdown Man, Ellipse
29 Jan 2020
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Truths: the earth is not perfectly round, it is flatter at the poles, more like an ellipse termed geoid, some things we are unable to dispute or prove that it happened. When the world was created: 1650, archbishop james ussher, determines by counting back the date and times stated in the bible, this was an accepted fact until the 19th century. North: these are all political, there are no correct ways to divide a country into regions, map depicts one way of thinking about canada. Examples: bone model, ontario and quebec are treated as separate regions, heartland-hinterland model, southern on and southern qb are seen together as the industrial heartland. Atlantic canada: makes up the eastern coast of the country, made up of newfoundland, pei, New brunswick, and nova scotia: this was the first point of contact for european settlers.
