The Geographical Diversity In The West And How It Shaped Us

By Dylan wooles

Contents of the book

Intro to 5 themes and more: 1 - 7

The last spike:8-9

Downtown Calgary 10-11

Calgary zoo 12-13

Frank slide 14-15

Head smashed in buffalo jump 16-17

Cave and Basin National Historic Site 18-19

Glacier Skywalk and Columbia Icefield 20-21

Golden Skybridge 22-23

Surprise activity’s 24-29

About me 30

Here is my comic explaining the five themes of geography it shows location, movement, human environment interaction, place, and region

over the next few pages I will be explaining it in more detail for each individual photo

But something to keep in mind is that i should be talking about the themes

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The reason I chose this photo to represent location is because location is described by exact place and the real location and i feel like this photo shows a location because it is a location and a important one as well. The reason its important is because it is a historic location that connected the west of Canada and the east so moving people and ideas.
It even has a form of monument signed by all provinces in Canada which shows how important of a location it is.

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This photo is showing movement because the train itself is moving but its also moving resources all through Canada including the West it also was used to move people and ideas when trains where more for human transport. Because of the people and ideas it has helped and still helps move the west has become more diverse and prospered which is why i feel like this photo represents movement in a literal and move imaginative sense.

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The way this shows place is because you can figure out the place for example the colosseum is a place for many reasons but for my comic i chose i photo of downtown Calgary because i big thing that makes it a place is religions and in the photo there is a Christian building. You can also tell that they value the building because it looks quite old and if they didn’t care about it they would most likely get rid of it. There also is a big building right behind it so you know its not just in some older town. But by far the thing that makes it a place the Calgary tower which is a tower you can see from what felt like all of Calgary. It quite a famous building which nowhere else has one exactly like that which makes it special and important to the people of Calgary.

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Another page for what is geography as keystone evidence for the driving question.

This shows region because reigion is how it is similar to other places and if there are any common features about a place. The way that this photo shows region is because it so special but the whole entire region near it looks like that with big mountains and yellow trees the entire area looks majestical and i think a good way to describe region is that the region has common traits like their yellow trees and blue lakes but the rest of that area past the region looks completely different and diverse.

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this photo / drawing was taken on a glacier and i found i very interesting that there was a Canadian flag and a whole industry making profits of the natural environment. What I just said is explaining human environment interaction the way this shows that is that humans claimed the glacier and made paths on to it and shaped parts of it so people can go on safely but they also made it a business to get visitors to canada to come stand on a glacier so that the companies get money

What Made and Makes the West?

I think that the diversity of the west has helped shape it into what we know today.
It also supports the economy because if every thing was the same there would be less to sell but we have the coast all the way to the plains in Alberta so we have more to sell.
I don’t think anyone would live here if it wasn’t diverse and everything was the same but because we have so many cultures mixed in for many different reasons we have interesting lives. The same can be said for the past to even if the diversity is in the land and not the people but the diverse Land helped bring in people because they were all drawn to it.

The Last Spike

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It represents movement by having a train that is on a railroad because during the time that the train was in use it would have been a super important part about moving people and their ideas when trying to get people to live in Canada or even in their day to day life.

I feel like I can connect to the last spike because I use products that most likely came off of the current cpr and its railway like fuel for a car to get to school or natural gas for heating and many other things.

As you can see in the photo the train is on the side next to the tracks because the train got old and it wouldn’t fit in with current society it also is not up to current requirements or is impractical because if you look at the current cpr it is mostly used for fossil fuels and is quite a lot bigger, more efficient and looks better.

The photo you are seeing was taken last spike which is where the the Canadian pacific was finished being built. The railway was made by a lot of different people but a large amount of the people working where not from Canada so a big part of the workers where Chinese and its estimated that over four died per mile of the track being made and that’s just the Chinese workers many other people died due to the working conditions of the railway. Because of the different groups of people who where brought to the west while building the railway once it was built all those diverse people went to live in the west and that helped expanded the diversity of the population.

Downtown Calgary