Atlantic Canada

Question 1

What are the two parts of At Canada

Answer 1

• the maritimes (nova scotia, PEI and New Brunswick)

- Newfoundland Labrador

Question 2

what is atlantic canada’s weak economic performance attributed to

Answer 2

• political division into 4 provinces (unorganized cant form one government to equalize)
• exhausted resources
• dispersed population
• distance from markets

Question 3

Atlantic Canada has a dependence on Ottawa for what

Answer 3

Economic support

Question 4

what are prospects for Atlantic Canada

Answer 4

the discovery of offshore oil and gas deposits

a huge shipbuilding contract from Ottawa

Question 5

what are the physiographic regions of atlantic canada

Answer 5

Appalachian Uplands

Canadian shield

Question 6

what causes unsettled weather conditions

Answer 6

the proximity to the atlantic
continental and marine air masses meet and cause cool wet summers and heavy snowfall winters
the meeting of labrador current and gulf stream also create extreme fog

Question 7

what are the climatic zones

Answer 7

atlantic subarctic and arctic

Question 8

What falls under the atlantic climatic zone

Answer 8

maritimes and newfoundland

influenced by warm, moist air from caribbean sea and gulf of mexico also arctic storm track dominates the winter

Question 9

What falls under the subarctic zone

Answer 9

labrador interior which has a boreal forest

Question 10

what falls under the arctic climatic zone

Answer 10

northern labrador and along the coast
“land fast ice” is Greenland icebergs that come to the coastline by the labrador current. Theres cool summers and tundra vegetation

Question 11

Muskrat Falls

Answer 11

Hydro project with concerns of
flooding Indigenous lands and
producing methylmercury

Question 12

Sydney Tar Ponds

Answer 12

toxic waste from sydney steel co and sysco

during 1998-2002 $400 million cleanup project

Question 13

Scottish Highland clearances

Answer 13

, the forced eviction of inhabitants of the Highlands and western islands of Scotland, beginning in the mid-to-late 18th century and continuing intermittently into the mid-19th century. The removals cleared the land of people primarily to allow for the introduction of sheep pastoralism. The Highland Clearances resulted in the destruction of the traditional clan society and began a pattern of rural depopulation and emigration from Scotland.

Clans, Collectives, And The Jac

Question 14

Atlantic canada was the first part of North America to be __________ by _________

Answer 14

Europeans, John Cabot 1497

Question 15

what were the next waves of immigration to Atlantic Canada

Answer 15

The Loyalists after the American Rev. (late 1700)

and the scots, irish and welsh due to Scottish Highland Clearances and Irish Potato famine

Question 16

who were the original populance of atlantic canada

Answer 16

the Mi’kmaq

Question 17

Early history saw resource exploitation of

Answer 17

cod and forests

Question 18

What was the “Golden Age if Sail”

Answer 18

By 1840 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick became the hot spot for ship building due to forestry and nice weather

Question 19

Why did newfoundland originally have a slow economical start

Answer 19

because they focused on cod fishery and coastal settlements

Question 20

what were atlantic exports and imports

Answer 20

ex cod and timber

in manufactured goods from england, and sugar and rum from west indies

Question 21

what were two benefits for Atlantic canadians with joining confederation

Answer 21

monthly payments for each child a mother bared and unemployment insurance for seasonal workers

Question 22

why did Ottawa extend the branch for Atlantic Canada to join confederation?

Answer 22

after wwII AT CAN became intertwined with american lifestyle etc.. Ottawa feared they would fall under american influence.

Question 23

At what times did atlantic canada join confederation

Answer 23

maritimes 1867 (2/4)
PEI 1873
Newfoundland 1949

Question 24

what are economic positives

Answer 24

Offshore oil and gas (dependent on
price rebound)

Mining/processing of nickel

Tourism, Shellfish, Shipbuilding

Knowledge-based economy in Halifax

Question 25

How has NL broken from equalization payments pattern

Answer 25

due to their oil wealth

Question 26

Lower Churchill Hydro project

Answer 26

Power stations at Churchill Falls producing electrical energy and
transmitting it through Atlantic Canada to New England

Question 27

Irving’s Halifax shipyard is building

Answer 27

the Royal Canadian’s Navy’s future
fleet
o Over $1 billion in complimentary
economic activities

Question 28

Muskrat Falls and Gull Island

Hydroelectric projects

Answer 28

Gull Island is Phase 2 of the Lower Churchill Project, of which the Muskrat Falls project is Phase 1. Once completed, the Muskrat Falls project will represent about 824 megawatts of power, while Gull Island will produce about 2,250 megawatts once completed, according to the current plans laid out by Nalcor.

Question 29

what led to the cod collapse

Answer 29

Tragedy of the commons and modern equipment expanded the fishing industry thus led to over fishing

Question 30

Offshore oil production is found only

Answer 30

in NL and Labrador

Question 31

where was the basis of NS’s iron and steel industry

Answer 31

Cape Breton

Question 32

what are the current dominating mining sectors

Answer 32

Iron and Nickel

Question 33

Voisey’s Bay (lab) mine is________ in world because _________________________

Answer 33

one of lowest-cost nickel mines

deposit close to surface and short distance from open water

Question 34

where is the forestry industry concentrated

Answer 34

nEW bRUNSWICK

Question 35

where is farmland concentrated

Answer 35

PEI
ST John River Valley (NB)
Annapolis Valley (NS)

Question 36

what are the major crops of at can

Answer 36

potatoes, tree fruit and grapes

Question 37

why is Atlantic canada considered the counry’s economically troubled region

Answer 37

due to high rates of unemployment, and out-migration

Question 38

Newfoundland has a second chance with

Answer 38

offshore petro resources

nickel deposits at voisey’s Bay

and potential of hydro project (Lower Churchill Project)