HW Sample Responses – Chapter 1
Apply It! p. 25 #1-5
Note that Ottawa-Gatineau is the same as Ottawa-Hull on your maps, and that it has been counted
twice – once in Ontario and once in Quebec. (Ottawa is a city in Ontario; Hull/Gatineau is in Quebec)
From: Making Connections: Issues in Canadian Geography, 3rd Edition, Teacher Resource 1 Copyright © 2015 Pearson Canada Inc.
Modified by Miss Chow
2. a) and b) done on map of Canada
e) People settle where there are resources available, or an economic base. In the discontinuous
ecumene, patches of settlement can result because settlements spring up depending on where the
resources are located. Examples of resources can include:
- mines
- lumber or pulp & paper mills
- transportation routes, such as the Trans Canada highway (settlements exist to provide services
for people travelling along the highway)
3. In the continuous ecumene, there is a more-or-less continuous web of transportation systems
available (e.g. roads, railways, and air routes). In the discontinuous ecumene, the transportation
network is spotty, except where major highways or rail routes pass through to link areas of the
continuous ecumene to each other.
In the discontinous ecumene, there are very few roads. Travel by plane is important, and ships may be
used in the brief summer months to move bulk cargoes, especially to the Northern parts.
4. Kenora is located in Ontario near, the border of Manitoba. It is at the crossroads of the two patches of
continuous ecumene in Canada – you can turn right to go to Thunder Bay and the rest of eastern Canada,
or turn left and go to Winnipeg and the rest of western Canada.
5. Your answers may vary. Here are some examples:
Costs of having / living in cities
- pollution, stress, noisy
- need lots of infrastructure projects
- unique social issues
Benefits of having / living in cities:
- better job and education opportunities
- cultural diversity
- high quality goods and services, concentrated economic activities
- less stressful on the environment than rural living (*does this surprise you?)
It is interesting to note that as our country has become urbanized, 80% of the population live in urban
places, and 20% live in rural places. Why is this ratio a good balance?
From: Making Connections: Issues in Canadian Geography, 3rd Edition, Teacher Resource 1 Copyright © 2015 Pearson Canada Inc.
Modified by Miss Chow
Apply It! p. 29 #1-2
1. For example, in the Toronto area these north-south roads are good examples. They are
approximately 2 km apart. Look them up on Google Maps.
 Jane Street
 Keele Street
 Dufferin Street
 Bathurst Street
 Yonge Street
 Bayview Avenue
 Leslie Street
 Victoria Park Avenue
 Warden Avenue
 Kennedy Road
 Markham Road
These east-west roads are also good examples:
 Steeles Ave.
 Finch Ave.
 Sheppard Ave.
 etc.
It is interesting to note that sections of certain roads were never built, or sometimes the concession
roads in adjacent townships don’t meet up. This is because they were surveyed with primitive tools (like
chains) at a time when the land was covered by a dense forest.
2. a) pattern; b) factor
i)
dispersed; role of government.
 extra background information: This is in the southern Prairies, which were surveyed
before they were settled. The survey pattern was one mile (1.6 km) by one mile (1.6 km)
squares. Each square was divided into four farms. This farm size (160 acres or a little less
than 73 hectares) turned out to be too small to be economically viable, so farm
consolidation has been happening for over a century. As was very common, not all of
the roads were built in the one-mile grid pattern. There are two examples near the west
side of the map. Most one-mile squares have one or two farmsteads on them, so the
population is very spread out.
ii)
linear (along the river); transportation.
 extra background information: This is a section of the Saint Lawrence River, east of
Montreal. This land was originally settled when people used the river for
transportation—boats in the summer and sleds in the winter. Hence it was critical that
each farm have river frontage. The result was that farms were very long and thin, and
parallel to the river. This pattern continued even when roads were built. In many places,
additional rows of farms were built parallel to the river.
From: Making Connections: Issues in Canadian Geography, 3rd Edition, Teacher Resource 1 Copyright © 2015 Pearson Canada Inc.
Modified by Miss Chow
iii)
linear (along the highway); transportation
 extra background information: This is the settlement along a section of the TransCanada Highway in northern Ontario. Most people live along the highway because it is
the most convenient place to live—for example, the snowplows would focus on this
major highway. Some people who live here have local businesses—gas stations and
restaurants that would be frequented by travelers on the highway. Others would use
the highway to drive to jobs in nearby towns.
iv)
concentrated; nature of resources.
 extra background information: This is the Mount Pakenham ski resort near Ottawa. A
resource that exists in one place, like a ski resort or mine, tends to produce a
concentrated settlement pattern such as this.
From: Making Connections: Issues in Canadian Geography, 3rd Edition, Teacher Resource 1 Copyright © 2015 Pearson Canada Inc.
Modified by Miss Chow