Since the arrival of the first Europeans to North America, Canada has been one of the main suppliers of base and
precious metals to the rest of the world. Write an essay assessing the positive and negative effects of mineral
exploitation in a selected region of Canada. Pay particular attention to the environmental, economic, social, and
political effects (both historical and long-term) of resource production on the region you have chosen to discuss.
Comment on the rise and fall of company towns, and regions subject to the resource curse.Since the arrival of the first Europeans to North America, Canada has been one of the main suppliers of base and precious metals to the rest of the world. Write an essay assessing the positive and negative effects of mineral exploitation in a selected region of Canada. Pay particular attention to the environmental, economic, social, and political effects (both historical and long-term) of resource production on the region you have chosen to discuss. Comment on the rise and fall of company towns, and regions subject to the resource curse.
-use reliable sources
-must use or address some of these topics:
core/periphery, staples; physiography, human, historical, economic geography