카나다의 사람이 만든 풍경 : Human Landscapes of Canada

ALAN TAYLOR

Canada is a massive country, with an area of more than 3.8 million square miles (10 million sq km), yet it has one of the lowest population densities in the world. Despite this, Canadians have made a wide impact on their land, much of it visible from aerial and satellite photography. Hydroelectric facilities, roads, mines, farms, ports, resource exploration, logging, canals, cities, and towns have altered much of the landscape over the years. Over the weekend, I took a virtual tour with Google Earth, and wanted to share some of these snapshots of Canada's human landscape.

• A neighborhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba with the Red River flowing through. 

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• A zig-zag cuts through the forest to mark the U.S.-Canada border near Lac Metgermette Quebec on top, Maine on the bottom. 

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• Farm fields and an interchange near Saint-Pacome, Quebec. 

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• A grid of farm fields north of Winkler, Manitoba. 

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• Dungeon Provincial Park in Newfoundland. 

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• Seismic lines and access roads to allow for petroleum exploration in northern British Columbia. Most of the evenly-spaced straight lines cut through the trees are trails cut for equipment mounted on trucks to make sub-surface geological surveys, sending sound waves into the ground at regular intervals, listening for echoes to find out what lies below. 

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• Downtown Calgary, Alberta. 

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• Fields in southwestern Manitoba. 

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• Human-made lines criss-cross the area around the Rapides-des-Iles hydroelectric generating station.  The broader stripes at bottom are cleared areas for huge power-lines, the smaller lines are logging roads and access roads. 

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• A grid of farm fields surround the small towns of Prelate (center left) and Sceptre (center right), Saskatchewan. 

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• A field turned into a golf course near Saint-Polycarpe, Quebec. 

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• Mt Royal, Montreal. 

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• The Welland Canal (blue) crosses over Welland River (tan) at top center.  The Welland Canal connects Lake Ontario with Lake Erie, passing through Welland, Ontario.

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• Patterns left in the forest by logging activity near Saint-Gedeon-de-Beauce, Quebec. 

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• Star-shaped fortress walls of La Citadelle in Quebec. 

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• Six trains sit on rail sidings near Saint-Lazare, Quebec. 

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• Logging activity, access roads, seismic lines and petroleum exploration near Burnstick Lake, Alberta. 

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• Detail of one of dozens of long pathways cleared for hydroelectric power lines across eastern Canada. 

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• A densely-built neighborhood of Cambridge, Ontario, alongside farm fields. 

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• A granite quarry near La Baie, Quebec. 

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• A river twists among farm fields near Yamaska, Quebec. 

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• A water treatment plant near Terrebonne, Quebec. 

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• L'Usine Grande-Baie, a smelter owned by Rio Tinto Alcan in Quebec that produces 220,000 tons of aluminum per year. 

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• Thetford Mines, Quebec. 

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• Logs float outside the harbor of Nanaimo, British Columbia. 

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• A single square of autumn-colored trees stands among farm fields near Sabrevois, Quebec. 

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• Seismic lines, natural gas exploration activity near Edson, Alberta. 

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• Breakwater and harbor of Cap-aux-Meules, Les-Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec. 

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• The streets of Montreal.

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• Cloverleaf and access to a tunnel leading to Montreal on Ile Charron. 

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• Wabush Mines, Labrador: open pit iron ore mine. 

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• A white border exposed on the shores of the Opinaca reservoir. 

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• Cargo vehicles parked in a Genco warehouse lot beside farms near Coteau-du-Lac, 

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• Seismic lines and natural gas exploration in northern British Columbia. 

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• Part of Dryden, Ontario, on Wabigoon Lake. 

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• A grid of farms among rivers and streams near Huffs Corners, Ontario. See it

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