Saint Lawrence Lowlands
1. Economic of Saint Lawrence Lowlands
1) Ontarian Saint Lawrence Lowlands
Because of sandy soil and flat land, Ontarian Saint Lawrence Lowlands is
good to make factory. Other reasons are Saint Lawrence Lowlands'
neighbourhood Canadian Shield has Iron and Five Great Lakes provide
Industrial water to Ontarian Saint Lawrence Lowlands. So Hamilton, ON has
US-Steel, Telco's manufacturing factory and Algoma Steel Corporation is
Hamilton's Steal Factory
located in Ontario.
Because of Steel Industry, Ontario is the largest motorcar industrial land. Windsor, ON and London, ON are the
biggest motorcar manufacturing area in Canada, because Saint Lawrence
Lowlands are very closely to Detroit, Windsor, ON and London, ON have
border with Detroit, MI, USA. So Southern Ontario(Nearly US-Canada
Border) has Chrysler plants in Windsor and Bramalea, two GM plants in
Oshawa and one in Ingersoll, a Honda assembly plant in Alliston, Ford
plants in Oakville and St. Thomas and Toyota assembly plants in Cambridge
and Woodstock.
Another reason that Saint Lawrence would become the most industrial
area in Canada is Saint Lawrence River and Five Lakes because Fives Lakes
Ford Oakhill Factory in Ontario
and Saint Lawrence River provide industrial water to industrial area.
Because Canadian Government in Ontario so Royal Bank of Canada,
Toronto-Dominion Trust, Bank of Scotia, Bank of Montréal and Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce's headquarters are located in Toronto(but Bank
of Montréal also has headquarters in Montréal). Toronto Stock Exchange is
the biggest stock exchange in Canada and third largest stock exchange in
North America(First is NYSE, New York ,NY, USA Second is NASDAQ, New
York, NY, USA) and the seventh largest stock exchange in the world [First is
NYSE(New York ,USA),Second
is NASDAQ(New York ,USA), Third is
JEG(Tokyo ,Japan), Fourth is EURONEXT(Amsterdam, the Netherlands but it is
Toronto Financial Centre
shared by France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal), Fifth is LSE(London, the United Kingdom and Italy),
Sixth is HSE(Hong Kong, Hong Kong)]. Toronto also has IT centres in Toronto's neighbourhood cities like Brampton,
Scarborough. Many Foreign Companies are located in Toronto.
2) Québécois Saint Lawrence Lowlands
Québec are also second largest manufacturing province in Canada. Because Québec has aluminium (from
imported ores), copper and zinc, Montréal has 260 companies of air sector and
they hire 40, 000 people. Bombardier (an airplane manufacturing company in
Canada), Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce Canada ( jet manufacturing companies
are located in Montréal), CAE (a flight simulator builder), Lockheed Martin and L3 Communications (defence contractors) [Bombardier and CAE's headquarters are
located in Montréal, QC] and Québec has factories that refine and smelting
metals.
Because of Lots of Forests in Québec, Québec has also famous for
manufacturing of lumber; pulp and paper generate annual shipments
valued at more than $14 billion. The forest products industry ranks second
Bombardier Factory in Dorval Quebec
in exports, with shipments valued at almost $11 billion. It is also the main, and in
some circumstances only, source of manufacturing activity in more than 250
municipalities in the province. The forest industry has slowed in recent years Two Bottles of Maple Syrup is
because of the softwood lumber dispute. This industry employs 68,000 people in from Quebec
several regions of Quebec. This industry accounted for 3.1% of Quebec's GDP and
Quebec is the biggest Canadian Maple Syrup maker and the world's largest
producer, with about 75 percent of global production totalling 24,660,000 litres
(6,514,482.81 UK gal) in 2005.
Because of Saint Laurence River and Saint Laurence Seaway and It is near to
reach Europe, The Port of Montreal is the largest inland port in the world As one Port of Montreal
of the most important ports in Canada, it remains a trans-shipment point for grain,
sugar, petroleumproducts, machinery, and consumer goods. For this reason, Montreal is the railway hub of
Canada and has always been an extremely important rail city; it is home to the headquarters of the Canadian
National Railway and was home to the headquarters of the Canadian Pacific Railway until 1995.