Regional Geography of Canada (Geog. 2221)

Running head: REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF CANADA (GEOG. 2221)
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Regional Geography of Canada (Geog. 2221)
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Regional Report
Introduction
This day and age, and the over the years the world has been divided into regions
and boundary also and the discourse of core-periphery concept has continued to grow. The
division is majorly on socio-economic values which causes the regional boundaries, and the
global scales. The cores of the world are said to be the dominant countries that had exploited
the peripheries during the colonials to reap economically from them. Core boundaries have
since continued to grow economically, socially and have been said to have a rich culture. The
difference is development between the peripherals and the core is development, historical-
cultural locations and the political decisions made or the policies that have been made
administratively.
The concept of cores and peripheries do exist in Canada as well, where the
parameters of distinguishing them are the heartland and the hinterland which depends more
on the locations of the regions geographically. Another parameter of classifying the core-
peripheries, are the sizes of the regions, physical features that exist in the environments, the
access to resources, employment opportunities (whether secondary or tertiary) and the
population within those territories (Yeates, 2013). The Atlantic coast, along the Great
Lakes, along the St. Lawrence river are where British and the French cores sprung up due to
the above-mentioned factors. When agriculture was beginning to take centre stage, which
brought up the Prairie settlement, that brought in an influx migrations of the European
nationals, which was a core-peripherals migration according to (Berry, 1988).
There are two such places classified as core regions of Canada, that is Ontario
and Quebec (Smith, 2010), the other remaining regions, like Atlantic Canada, West
Canada, British Columbia, and the Territorial North (classified as the fault lines according to

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(Bone, 2012)). This paper is meant to focus on Quebec as a city in Canada and classified as
a core for that matter. The paper will elaborate on the economic activities involved in that
city, natural resources found in that city, the demographics of the city, and how the city will
look in a decade to come.
Quebec
Geographical
As the largest province in Canada territorially, which covers about 15.4% (see
table 1) of the country, it shares boarders with Ontario southwestern side, Newfoundland and
New Brunswick. It shares boundary with 4 states of the United States of America, which are
Maine, Vermont, New York, and New Hampshire (Couture, 2007). (see figure 2)
Table 1: Table showing the sizes of the Canadian Territories/Provinces