Metropolis and Region: The Interplay between City and Region in Canadian History before 1914
From the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, from the opening of the Newfoundland fishery to the settlement of the western plains and Pacific slopes, Canada took shape primarily through the spreading of frontiers across the continent. Frontier areas, the forward zones of an expansive, acquisit...
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crunivtoronpr:10.7202/1019408ar 2023-12-31T10:19:33+01:00 Metropolis and Region: The Interplay between City and Region in Canadian History before 1914 Careless, J. M. S. 1979 http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1019408ar https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.7202/1019408ar en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Urban History Review volume 7, issue 3-78, page 99-118 ISSN 0703-0428 1918-5138 Urban Studies History journal-article 1979 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.7202/1019408ar 2023-12-01T08:17:46Z From the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, from the opening of the Newfoundland fishery to the settlement of the western plains and Pacific slopes, Canada took shape primarily through the spreading of frontiers across the continent. Frontier areas, the forward zones of an expansive, acquisitive society, offered new supplies of natural resources to be put to commercial production. Generally, and increasingly, these raw areas of resource supply developed into populous, well structured regions with collective identities of their own. Yet the whole development of freshly opened frontier into firmly rooted region was linked throughout with the growth of the city, and especially with that of the largest, most powerful kind of city, the metropolis. In effect, frontiers themselves were the furthest hinterlands of cities, the trading territories dominated by urban centres. They were far-spread supply fields for urban places, emerging investment, market and service outlets; and, above all, enlarging spheres of influence for those most dominant urban places, the metropolitan cities. Behind the rise of frontier, hinterland or region in Canada lay the power of the metropolis, which ultimately disposed of their resource harvest, strongly fostered their expansion, and widely controlled their very existence. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Urban History Review 7 3-78 99 118 |
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From the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, from the opening of the Newfoundland fishery to the settlement of the western plains and Pacific slopes, Canada took shape primarily through the spreading of frontiers across the continent. Frontier areas, the forward zones of an expansive, acquisitive society, offered new supplies of natural resources to be put to commercial production. Generally, and increasingly, these raw areas of resource supply developed into populous, well structured regions with collective identities of their own. Yet the whole development of freshly opened frontier into firmly rooted region was linked throughout with the growth of the city, and especially with that of the largest, most powerful kind of city, the metropolis. In effect, frontiers themselves were the furthest hinterlands of cities, the trading territories dominated by urban centres. They were far-spread supply fields for urban places, emerging investment, market and service outlets; and, above all, enlarging spheres of influence for those most dominant urban places, the metropolitan cities. Behind the rise of frontier, hinterland or region in Canada lay the power of the metropolis, which ultimately disposed of their resource harvest, strongly fostered their expansion, and widely controlled their very existence. |
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Metropolis and Region: The Interplay between City and Region in Canadian History before 1914 |
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Metropolis and Region: The Interplay between City and Region in Canadian History before 1914 |
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