Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lake Ontario, Core Cities Group, System Model

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2011A/B
• Professor: Wendy Dickinson

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Definitions: the heartland-hinterland system model provides a framework for examining, at various geographic scales, the movement of people, goods and services, investment capital, and technology from one region to another. Heartland process: the origin of a heartland is primarily economic. Ontario as a heartland: windsor-quebec axis, other smaller regional heartlands: vancouver, edmonton/calgary, winnipeg, halifax, south central ontario and the golden horseshoe. Golden horseshoe: agricultural, commercial and industrial belt, along the western end of lake ontario (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) t. Ontario as a heartland (1945-1970: ontario prospered - diverse economy & power, economic management of canada linked to. Ontario: ontario supported strong federal government, preserved central role by blocking attempts by other provinces to gather more powers. Federal parliament: representation by population, 308 seats, 106 in ontario, ontario has recently gotten more seats due to growth, quebec also got more, but for political reasons, not growth. What makes regions, regions: underpinnings, geographic proximity, economic/political, fiscal, cultural, (cid:862)regio(cid:374)s of the mi(cid:374)d(cid:863)