GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Palliser Expedition, Subsistence Agriculture, Crow Rate
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The purpose of the palliser expedition in 1857 was to assess the settlement potential of. A rail link between the east and west. By the late 19th century, settlement remained well-below national expectations, due to natural events such as the high cost of manufactured goods from the industrial. Heartland - low wheat prices also deterred farmers from labouring in the tough soils. Atlantic canadians and western europeans) were not able to survive in the harsh environment. This region suffered disproportionately more than other regions of canada during the. 1930s - the combined effects of the great depression along with a severe drought on the prairies caused wheat production to drop to neat subsistence levels - for example, in. The athabasca oil sands are large deposits of unrefined bitumen, lying under roughly. billion has been spent on tar sands-related construction in the past 50 years, with. There are many negative externalities associated with this project - oil sands and.