GEOG 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Alaska Boundary Dispute, Staples Thesis, Columbia District
9 Feb 2020
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Canada"s evolution and boundary making: dominant issues in canadian state making include: Territoriality: colonial status, geography and development, u. s. hegemony. Staples thesis: canadian economic development is an east-west conception of trade, canada has developed because of its staple commodities, relationship between regions is strong (heartland/hinterland, the fur trade created the geographical boundaries of canada. Defining the boundaries: war of 1812 pro british leaders hostile to american influences after the war, u. s. immigration discouraged, showed the vulnerability of upper and lower canada, columbia district (1840"s, the alaska boundary dispute (1903) Internal and external process: mechanisms to control place and space, popular acceptance of classification of space, communication of a sense of place, enforcing control over space, governance types, balance of power, rise of nationalism, concert of europe, wars.
