Why is America so large* and successful while Canada is small* and mediocre in comparison?
*population wise
>>1035973
>Canadian Shield
Google that
Half of Canada is basically a frozen wasteland
there wasnt really any eras of mass migration other than the chinese during the gold rushes, i think
plus, the south was always urban and densely populated and industrial because of the railroad while the north remained sparsely populated and rural
>>1036000
because of the climate
It's because our climate and geography makes most of the land unlivable
Note how nearly all the very successful (on a global scale) nations/societies/countries have been in that same temperate belt.
most of Canada is uninhabitable
>>1035973
Frozen wasteland.
The majority of our population lives within something like 500km of the US border. Climate, mufugga.
Some ridiculous amount of the population lives within 100 miles of the US border... it's like 50-75%. They're rich in resources but it's too cold to sustain large settlements of people.
>>1036050
and the main exception, of course, is the areas that are largely landlocked. Having a coast and living in a termperate area is humanity's key to success apparently.
>>1036002
Fuck off Jared diamond
There's not much in Northern Canada and not many people settled in Canada to begin with.
>>1036000
That's not true, there was a period of mass migration to the Prairies during the late 19th/early 20th C.
Hence all the Ukrainians out there
too cold to get out of bed
>>1036328
That's true but Canada didn't really encourage mass immigration to the prairie provinces until the the 1890s, giving the US a few decades head start in that respect. It didn't help that a good deal of arable land was until the end of the 19th Century in the hand of companies like Hudson's Bay Company that wasn't particularly looking to settle its lands.
