Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part two. The field of transportation

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN TRANSPORTATION (A) Trap Routes aAnp Cities oF BritisH NORTH AMERICA Fourteen cities in the Dominion of Canada have populations of more than fifty thousand. Because of the climate, these cities are crowded toward the southern border. In the colony of Newfoundland (which includes Labrador) only the capital, St. John's, has a population of more than five thousand. Leaping Cities AND THEIR POPULATIONS Montreal Toronto . Vancouver Winnipeg Quebec . Hamilton Ottawa Calgary 952,900 556,700 250,000 191,400 126,000 122,500 19,300 55 500 Edmonton Victoria London Halifax Windsor 3+ John > "ohn Reg.ns . 65,200 65,000 64,300 62,000 56,400 50,000 40,100 27 300 I. What kinds of transportation connect the leading cities with one another and with the western plains? 2. Through what waterways does their inland commerce reach the ocean? 3. Divide the cities listed above into seaports, lake ports, river ports, and cities without water transportation. Which ports have good harbors? The eastern port of Canada. The chief ports of Canada are Mon- treal and Vancouver. Montreal is almost as important as all the others combined. It is located as follows: (a) on the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway; (b) at the head of navigation for ocean steamers; (¢) a thousand miles from the open sea; (d) where the Champlain- Hudson valley gives an easy route to the south and the Ottawa val- ley an easy route to the west; and (e) nearer to Europe than is New York. { In what respects is the position of Montreal either supgrior or inferior to that of New York? The cold climate does not permit agriculture in the regions north and northwest of Montreal. It causes the St. Lawrence to be frozen five months of the year. 5. What effect would you expect the foregoing facts to have on the commerce of Montreal ?

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