Rural Settlement Patterns

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RuralSettlementPatterns

• Permanent settlement of people outside cities
  towns.

Rural settlement
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3 Factors That Affect the Pattern of Rural
Settlement

• 1)Types of Resources
• Resources found In the area
• Agriculture/Forests/Rivers/Mountains

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2)Transportation Routes

• Need to be located near transportation routes
• Pre 1800s located near water
• Post 1800s located near roads and rail lines

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3)Government Policy

• Govt planned how, where and when settlement
  occurred
• A set of rules was developed to control these
  things known as a SURVEY SYSTEM (pattern used by
  the govt to divide the land)

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Rural Settlements

• 1. Long-lots of Southern Quebec
• Long narrow lots extending back from major rivers
• Southern QB settled long before development of
  roads
• At the time, rivers were only source of
  transportation so everyone had to have access to
  water, the result was small water frontage along
  St. Lawrence River
• Farm houses could be close together for protection

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• Land ranged from fertile soil at the river to
  forests/rock at the end
• Today farming along the fertile soils provide
  important products for Quebec (Maple Syrup)

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2. Concession system in Southern Ontario

• In Ontario the land was divided up into a grid
  system placed over the landscape (approx. 2kms
  apart)
• Roads running East/West and North/South divided
  the land
• Group of concession blocks called a township,
  group of townships called a county

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3. Section System of the Prairies

• A huge grid was placed over portions of the
  Prairies (9.6 km by 9.6 km)
• Each block was then further divided into 25
  sections
• Each of the 25 sections was divided into
  quadrants (NE, SE, SW, NW)
• Each quadrant became a farm

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Other Settlement Patterns

• Other settlement patterns in Canada focused on
  Natural resources
• Settlements near services, coast lines, mining
  settlements, hydro locations are all examples.

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Homework

• IssueRural Population Rural Depopulation
• Textbook Page 232-233
• Answer Questions 1 (in your own words) and 4