The Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway is the longest road in the world, and is still being built today. Why, one may ask, would such an expensive project be built in the first place? Simply to connect all of the growing Canadian businesses, is why. Canada is the second largest country in the world, so having a road from coast-to-coast connecting the country would be very beneficial to the efficiency of travel and business.
The St. Lawrence Seaway
Much like the Trans-Canada Highway, the St. Lawrence Seaway is all about connections. Completed in 1959, this project was not easy to build. "Between 1954 and 1959, more than 22,000 people worked on the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway." (The St. Lawrence Seaway: Economic Engine of the Northeast). The construction of the Seaway created many construction jobs, and the finished product allowed easy access to the centre of the Great Lakes. However, the St. Lawrence Seaway came with some costs. People were forced out of their homes to allow the Seaway to be built, and Canada had to pay nearly 3/4 of the $470 million used to build it. In conclusion, the St. Lawrence Seaway was and is still a great benefit to Canada's economy.
Uranium in Elliot Lake
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During the 1950's the United States was looking to build and atomic bomb, and needed uranium. In Canada a town called Elliot Lake contained granite with very high uranium oxide percentages. So in a short time, 12 mines were in full operation in Elliot Lake and Canada became the worlds largest supplier of Uranium, (most of which was used by the United States). Canada's Economy benefited from this by becoming the largest supplier of uranium; then it was Canada's fourth-largest major export.