Lindsey Botham and Haley Jeffrey

Ms Campbell and Mme Le Bouëdec

CGC1P

December 3, 2014

 Essay

      The three rural areas are long lots of southern Quebec, concession system of southern Ontario, and section system of southern prairies. Rural areas are of agricultural farming, rivers, and lakes. With owned policies by the people.

      The long lots of southern Quebec offers agricultural farming along the St Lawrence River. The long lots are made of mostly farming because of their access to water. They also live along the river with transportation. The transportation the used was by boat and by sled in the winter. Later they developed roads and railways. Taxes were increased by the amount of land they owned.

     The concession system of southern Ontario has agricultural road and lakes. They have agricultural land throughout the concession system. Settlement in the concession system became very popular after southern Ontario put the concession survey to use. People would live in places called a county. The townships and counties are an irregular size. The people would travel by boat then later car and train after a while the river wasn’t useful anymore and stopped travelling by boat.

       The section system of southern prairies has had a switch in system running and has depended on the land for resources and transportation. They didn’t use water or boats for transportation because they had railways and roads. The people lived off the land, depending on the crops they grew and the house they built. They have had a switch in their way of running the system because they were afraid the U.S. government stealing their land, but they couldn’t go to lots way because families needed the in-land to harvest food for their large families.

     The three rural areas share some relations but yet totally different by transportation, resources, and government. They didn’t always use boats, cars, trains, and other transportation. They used the same resources in different ways.