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An 11 page overview of the development of western Canada. The author details the importance of such factors as the fur trade and wheat production in determining Canadian infrastructural and thus cultural development. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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development are interrelated. The Staples Theory, a theory first proposed by Harold Innis, attempts to explain these interrelationships from the perspective of exportable raw or semi-processed resources. A
Canadian economic historian, Innis asserts in the Staples Theory that Canadian development as a whole has proceeded on the basis of which resources were available at a particular time in
history and which were in demand for export to Europe. Canadas economy and culture in her early history were in many ways inextricably linked to Europe simply because of
the trade relationship which existed. The closed ties result in a particularly interesting relationship in regard to the development of the Prairies in the World War I era.
According to the Staples Theory, different societies are created around specific resources or "staples". Examples of this contention can be found in observing
forestry endeavors in British Columbia, Oil and Gas Drilling in Alberta, the cod fishery of the maritimes, the wheat farms of western Canada, and the fur trade which characterized central
Canada. Not only were the staples different, so were the cultures which sprang up as a result of efforts to harvest those resources. The latter culture, that associated
with the fur trade, is of particular interest when discussing the development of Canada in that many contend the fur trade was the single most important factor shaping Canada as
a whole. The initiation of the burgeoning business environments which now characterize Montreal and Toronto, in particular, can be credited with the fur trade.
It would be the fur trade that would initially bring European settlers into the Prairie region of Canada as well. Trade between the indigenous peoples of Canada
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