Why would the prairie provinces have many communities close to the railways?
• Use the scale and a piece of string to calculate the approximate length of the Trans-Canada highway. • What is the most northerly city connected to a major road? What is the most northerly city with an airport? • Why are most transportation facilities located in southern Canada (hint: see pages 54, 55)? Using pages 28, 29 of the atlas: • What major resource would be transported from Saskatchewan? • What two resources would be transported from Alberta? Using the Living Atlas p. 50-51, use the scale to estimate how far a ship would have to travel: • from Windsor to Thunder Bay; • from Sarnia to Sault Ste. Marie. Discuss the positive and negative sides of developments in transportation. Consider issues such as the depletion of resources and pollution of the environment. Conservation While learning about interdependence consider conservation. Use scenarios such as a decision to close commercial fishing grounds to explore implications to the environment, economy, and well-being of society
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- Why would the prairie provinces have many communities close to the railways?
