Cordillera Case Study

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British Columbia is Canada’s most westerly province that consists 10 percentage Canada’s land mass. It is a third largest province after Quebec and Ontario. Since it is located near the coastline, get extra benefit from the trade and transportation. Therefore with all the geographic benefit, the BC has sad history from the rapacious predator countries. From the end of World War II to 1970s, due to the urban development, they lost most productive farmland but they were able to recover quickly. The Gold rush during 1858 and Canadian railway 1885 brought many people and immigrant in BC. The physiographic in BC is Cordillera; the combination of mountain, plateaus, and valleys, make this province able to emerging giant Canada’s economic system through different natural resources. The Cordillera climatic zone consists of a number of microclimates (Bone, p.280), which can turn affect vegetation and soil conditions within these microclimates.
Mainly there is three natural diversity conditions result the province wealthy and rich environment. Rainforest along the cost developed harbours, fishing, and
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Since the Cordillera formed by severe folding and faulting of sedimentary rocks, the coastal zone is subject to earthquakes because of tectonic movement result difficulty building industries near the coast area. Additionally, most of the BC’s natural resource are renewable however conditions changes apply the resource non-renewable or take long period of time to reproduce. Without sustainable resource use, the future of BC’s natural resources is not bright (Bone, p.281). Especially the dry climate in 2009 results huge fire in both BC and Alberta forest. This accident damage forest industry and economic depression entire Canada. Therefore to make resource effectively in economics, we should control the marketing scale and

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