To: Alberta's Child
Rural Ontario is different than rural areas of the U.S. As you make your way up the Ottawa River valley you find that most of rural Ontario is forested with rocky soil. Combined with the cold climate, its not conducive to agriculture at all. For all you geology/geography fans out there, you just described the Canadian Shield, the part of Canada that was covered in glaciers in the last major Ice Age. (All of Ontario, most of Quebec and the Labrador part of Newfoundland are in the Canadian Shield.) Indeed, you can see the from the air the demarcation between the maximum extent of the glaciers and fertile farmland in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Indeed, the farmland south of the Canadian Shield in the provinces I mentioned are some of the richest farmland in the world when it comes to growing staple grain crops.
25 posted on
12/06/2016 10:21:28 AM PST by
RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88
Exactly. For some reason I've always referred to it as the Laurentian Shield. I've taken a few long road trips up through that area.
31 posted on
12/06/2016 10:28:19 AM PST by
Alberta's Child
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To: RayChuang88
Indeed, the farmland south of the Canadian Shield in the provinces I mentioned are some of the richest farmland in the world when it comes to growing staple grain crops.
The entire U.S. state of Michigan is made of the fertile topsoils that were scraped off of the Canadian Shield and dumped in their current location by the glaciers.
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To: RayChuang88
The Canadian Shield also penetrates into parts of the Upper Midwest (Upper Peninsula of Michigan, northern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota), and they have been struggling but not nearly as much, as energy costs are lower and they have more (relative) power in their states
To: RayChuang88
Southern Ontario between Windsor and Toronto is definitely not in the Canadian Shield, but rather resembles northern Ohio or the Michigan “Thumb”, which are rich soil growing regions.
54 posted on
12/07/2016 4:49:31 AM PST by
nd76
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