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Industry in Canada
“Industry” is any large-scale money making activity
Examples:
iron ore is turned into steel.
fish are harvested and used
as food.
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Raw Material
An extraction or Primary industry will set up where
the resource is found
Etaki Diamond
Mine Canada
Manufacturing
Manufacturing means turning raw materials into a
useful form or a finished product.
Iron ore is smelted to produce steel
(primary manufacturing),
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Services
Service industries are based on doing
something for someone.
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Importance
Secondary industries- change raw materials
into goods we use
Build the economy
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Exports
What is an export?
Things that are sold to people in other countries
What do we export most:
Automotive, aircrafts, industrial machinery
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Imports
Import – a product that is brought into Canada from
another country
What do we import
Clothes, electronics, cars/parts
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Experience Canada page 175
Location Factors
When setting up a secondary industry what do
companies consider?
Access to skilled employees
Access to other parts
Access to final market
Access to export markets
Transportation networks
Stages in Primary & Secondary Industry
Primary Industry Secondary Industry
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Why such a large shift in Job?
Mechanization of farming = less farm hands needed
New machinery in industry = less need for factory
workers
Robots
More retail jobs – electronics, cell phones
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Tertiary Industry
Industries that support all of the others by providing
services.
Most urban centers involve a wide range of service
industries.
Some cities are almost totally service based and have
few secondary and no primary industries.
Waterloo is a good example of this – Technical,
Universities
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Retail Sector = Tertiary Industry
Development locations
Ribbon developments – rows of stores i.e. older towns
– Downtown Bolton
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Retail Sector = Tertiary Industry
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Government sector
Medical
Teaching
Postal
Water, Sewers
Municipal Provincial, Federal, Territorial
Transportation Sector
Infrastructure = Transportation is a very large part
Water, hydro, sewers etc..
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Industry In Canada, 1900 to 2050
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Pg 189 q 1 a,b, 2
Pg 197 q 16 a, b
Questions
Pg. 173 question 2 a, b, c
A)Canada secondary industries
= 2563400 / 12199600 = 27%
B)Ontario secondary industries
= 1118700 / 12199600 = 9%
Secondary industry
Machinery – 24%
Automotive – 22%
Industrial goods – 16%
Pg. 176 q 9, 10
9)
Iron ore to car- raw material processed ore
making parts assembled car
10)
Pg. 189 q 1 a,b, 2
1a) Tertiary industry became the largest employer
1b)Primary industry became the smallest employer –
agribusiness/fishing needed less workers
The secondary business shrank as well but much less –
Canada is still employing people in this industry
Tertiary industry became the largest employer