Canadian Geography

Canada has an extremley large geography which plays a tremendous role on many factors that affect Canadians. These factors both help and hinder Canada economically, socially and politically. The geography of Canada has also caused regions to form. For the most part, these regions exist due to physical that are present in Canada's landscape. Canada's geography has also had a large impact on the influences that affect settlers. Canada's relatively low popuation in comparison to the large land mass make Canada a place where people who desire to settle in high population, urban areas or large, isolated, and low-trafficked areas. The high population of people near the Canadian-American border is also a unique feature of Canada, due to the warmer climate and the proximity to the border making international trading for large and small buisnesses much easier, and rich and fertile soil that is close to the border, this regions of Canada is the most popular. Due to our vast resources some aspects of Canada are sacrificed, mining projects, oil sands, and other searches for non-renewable resources ravage Canada's land and make it so it is unusable for an extremley long period of time or indenfietly. Canadian population pockets have created distinct regions within Canada that greatly affect the diversity within the country. Canada has vast land that affects the country in many different ways and this essay will explore all of the negative and positive aspects of Canada's geography. Canada's geography has created regions, with the exception of one region, they have been formed due to physical barriers, for example, the Cordillera of British Columbia is contained by the Rocky Mountains, to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. This mountainous region also has a few low lying valleys, but consists primarily of forests. Adjaccent to the Cordillera of British Columbia one would find the physical region known as the Interior Plains. The interior Plains includes the