Canada’s resource economy
From the beginning, resource activities defined Canada’s global role. As Glen Norcliffe’s original and perceptive paper observes, John Cabot’s discovery of Newfoundland began a relentless, albeit uneven pat-tern of resource exploitation of Canada designed to serve the metropolitan markets of the wor...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.629.9482 2023-05-15T17:21:48+02:00 Canada’s resource economy Roger Hayter Trevor J. Barnes The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.629.9482 http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~tbarnes/pdf/PAPER_Canada%27s_Resource_Economy.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.629.9482 http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~tbarnes/pdf/PAPER_Canada%27s_Resource_Economy.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~tbarnes/pdf/PAPER_Canada%27s_Resource_Economy.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T15:24:09Z From the beginning, resource activities defined Canada’s global role. As Glen Norcliffe’s original and perceptive paper observes, John Cabot’s discovery of Newfoundland began a relentless, albeit uneven pat-tern of resource exploitation of Canada designed to serve the metropolitan markets of the world. This early European maritime contact supported small, vulnerable, and dispersed settlements on Canada’s eastern shores. As Innis (1930) documented, the east-west extension of these maritime contacts, through the sinewy tentacles of the fur trade via rivers, lakes, and portage geographically defined the future Canada, and its relation to the rest of the world. The purpose of our paper is to fill out Cabot’s story, and more generally the issues of staples, envi- Text Newfoundland Unknown Canada |
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From the beginning, resource activities defined Canada’s global role. As Glen Norcliffe’s original and perceptive paper observes, John Cabot’s discovery of Newfoundland began a relentless, albeit uneven pat-tern of resource exploitation of Canada designed to serve the metropolitan markets of the world. This early European maritime contact supported small, vulnerable, and dispersed settlements on Canada’s eastern shores. As Innis (1930) documented, the east-west extension of these maritime contacts, through the sinewy tentacles of the fur trade via rivers, lakes, and portage geographically defined the future Canada, and its relation to the rest of the world. The purpose of our paper is to fill out Cabot’s story, and more generally the issues of staples, envi- |
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