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Maptour: Canada's Ecological Regions ca 1500 CE
Canada in a North American Context


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Map: Ecological Regions, ca 1500 CE

Try This:

  • Open the interactive map “Ecological Regions, ca 1500 CE.”

Notice ...

  • Canada’s ecological zones describe a great sweeping arc southeastward from Alaska, around Hudson Bay, and out to Newfoundland.

Try This:

  • Under LAYER CONTROLS, turn on the checkbox for "Modern Geography."

Notice ...

  • Modern political jurisdictions bear little or no relationship to ecological zones of five centuries ago.

Consider!

  • Space, rather than the characteristics of that space, has motivated the political subdivision of the continent in recent centuries.