Canada Urbanization

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Upon analyzing. To what extend industrialization, and urbanization at the turn of the century, brought prosperity to Canada, and her citizens Have been a learning experience. Canada as a nation did prosper, but varied. Geographical location, Government policy, but not all classes of her citizens enjoyed the same fortune of the country.
In light of the prosperity that Canada had at the turn of the century there are many facts that can be argued that this prosperity was centerd to a limited and regional location, or that all of her regions did not enjoy prosperity on the same level. Some regional locations experienced a rapid growth than others. The Maritimes economic growth was slow their economy before the national policy was based on cod,
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In the central region Quebec one of the most populated rgions in Canada also did not experience the same prosperity compared to Ontario its bordering neighbor. Thoe Quebec was shifting faster to industrialization compared to the east and western Canada. Controll of it’s industry was in the hands of foreign investers. Quebeckers were more of the labors of their own established industries than being the managers or the owners. This was argued on many platforms to attribute to “language” witch English was predominantly the language of business. The church Lionel Groulx who continued to teach. that their people’s place was to work on farms and raise large families. At the same time the church controlled the educational system. This line of thought was agreed with Many patriotic French Canadians such as Paul Tardival. It could be argued that Quebeckers lack of larger share of the industrial wealth was due in part by its leaders. We can’t ignore the fact that Québécois did own some of the industries or were in fact some of the savy investers in Canada like Luis forget and his nephew Rodolphe. As well as many notable captains of industry Alfred Dubuc who owned the …show more content…
But still it had the advantage to become the number one economy in Canada it had the same advantages as Ontario. Great water ways for electricity, resources for mining, but was slow into turning all of this advantage into a powerfull economic power house. In the west this economy was resource based. Central Canada gradually became its main market. New transportation rails gave Vancouver more options for market British Columbia opened many successful manufacturing companies for the process of their resources. The open of the Panama Canal in 1914 helped Vancouver and opened new markets such as Europe. Winnipeg, Saskatoon,regina Edmonton, and mor western cities became an agricultural based economy like the east coast with Vancouver dominating.Ontario was far the most advanced economy contributing the most to the national economy. many united states huge corporations opened a divisional branches in the province electricity was cheep after it was made public ownership by the government led by Sir Adam Beck. Many investers favoured Ontario the government invested heavily in the province helping the province to be debt free by the premier Oliver Mowat

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