1. Question #3 – Developmental Impact on Regions, Territories and Society Mr Wilson History 404

2. Salluit

3. Salluit  The 2 nd most Northern settlement in Quebec.  Population of 1241 in 2006.  Not accessible by road.  Salluit means “The Thin Ones” in the native tongue, Inuktitut.

5. Salluit – A Brief History  An independent trader opened a trading post there in 1925.  The Hudson’s Bay Company was soon its main competitor and eventually took over the town in 1932.  A Catholic mission and an Anglican mission were founded, and eventually a school (1957).  Salluit was legally made a municipality in 1979.

6. http://www.geog.mcgill. ca/grad/berrouard/ http://www.geog.mcgill. ca/grad/berrouard/ (My friends website…)

7. Schefferville

8. Main economic activity?

9. Schefferville  The town was originally established in 1954 by the Iron Ore Company of Canada.  Situated in Northern Quebec, it is 2 km from the Labrador border.  However, Iron mining was stopped in 1980, and most of the 4000 non- aboriginal inhabitants left.

11. Impact of Development?  The Naskapi people did not have a settlement there until the arrival of the HBC.  Basically, it was a Fur Trade town that was built up very quickly for Iron Ore mining.  But then once the Iron Ore was no longer profitable – the town virtually closed.

12. http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca /regions/profils/region_00/ region_00_an.htm http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca /regions/profils/region_00/ region_00_an.htm (Check out this site!)

13. How does development occur over time??? (This is an important question…and it will keep coming up again and again and again…)

14. Questions You need to consider? (WRITE THESE DOWN.) 1. International context – when and HOW did economic activity in this region begin? 2. Which economic SECTORS are involved? 3. How has ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT effect the regions territory? 4. How did the ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT effect the regions society?

15. TO THE WORKBOOK! (and beyond…)