GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Saint Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Arable Land

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 2OC3
• Professor: John Maclachlan

Document Summary

Part ii: the industrial heartland: located in the great lakes st. lawrence lowlands, southern ontario and. 100ppl/square km: 10x higher than anywhere else in canada. Characteristics of industrial heartland: physical environment: climate, soils and energy sources, cultural context: consisting of anglophone ontario and francophone quebec, economic role: despite social and cultural disunity, remarkable paradox of region functioning as a single economic entity. Upper canada (in references to the st lawrence river: has more favorable physical resources base than lower canada, upper canada (source of river, lake ontario): kingston, london, Urbanization: process whereby society/nation is transformed from one which is predominantly rural to urban (less agriculture, more commercial) Industrialization: process where by economy because increasingly dominated by the factory mode of production. Greater golden horseshoe: peterborough to london to st. catherine"s: ontario"s prominent threat will be the hollowing out of its industrial and, result of globalization and opening of worldwide markets.