Canadian Geography

Canadian Geography

Name : _Canadian_Geography_edits .doc

2006

Canada 's biophysical environment has played a key role in the economic and demographic growth of Atlantic Canada , Ontario and Quybec and will continue to do so in the future . Each region provides a very diverse physical landscape which is inherently instrumental to the growth and sustainability of Canada at large . Therefore , this will discuss the roles , natural resources , physical locations , economic evolution and demographic development of each of the three regions in relation to their respective biophysical environments

Approximately two-thirds of Ontario

is covered by the Canadian Shield (also called the Precambrian Shield in the US after the rock formations it houses that date back approximately 550 million years . Historically this area provided fodder for fur trappers , miners and loggers , while today it is used for much of the same along with the extrication of other natural resources (zinc , copper , silver , amethyst , cobalt and platinum

Without question , Ontario 's scenery is distinguished by its forests Ranging from the deciduous Niagara Peninsula area , mixed forests of the Great Lakes and St . Lawrence River regions and the coniferous boreal forest of the North , sixty-five percent of Ontario is considered to be forested land (more than 70 million hectares

More than twenty million people live in Ontario , making it home to approximately one in every three Canadians . The gross majority (eighty percent ) live in urban centers along the shores of the Great Lakes called the Golden Horseshoe

Being that more people live in Ontario than any other Canadian province it makes sense that its economic engine `drives ' the Canadian economy Ontario major manufacturing lies in automobiles , assembling more than any other place in North America other than Michigan and exporting its creations to the US , Japan and Mexico . In ninety-four percent of all exported goods and fifty-eight percent of the

Second only to Nunavut , the province of Quebec is the largest of the provinces , covering a physical space three times larger than France and twenty times larger than Scandinavia . The Canadian Shield comprises ninety percent of the area , including the Labrador Peninsula , while satellite photographs still show many of the long farming lots associated with the Seigniorial System (1627 ) that remains to this day

The southerly St . Laurent River valley is the home to the gross majority of Quebec 's population , where both Quebec City (its capital ) and Montreal (Canada 's largest industrial center ) lie . To Montreal 's north are the Appalachian Mountains . The highest mountain in the area is Mont D 'Iberville , which sits on the b to Newfoundland and Labrador respectively in the north east

Climactically , Quebec has three regional variations . The largest population areas in the south and west are humid continental , with warm humid summers and very long and cold winters . Severe precipitation is evident in this area as well , with more than one thousand millimeters of rain every year , including more than three hundred centimeters of snow Central Quebec , on the other hand , holds a subartic climate , with even...