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Canadian shield canada map. Old maps of canadian shield on old maps online. It covers labrador most of quebec and ontario much of northern manitoba and saskatchewan a tiny part of north east alberta and part of the northwest territories. 6270000 kanada department of the interior. Various minerals and precious stones have been mined or continue to be mined on the shield including gold silver copper zinc nickel iron uranium and diamonds.

Mining began in the region in the mid 19th century and was key to canada s economic development. The canadian shield is the principal area of north america where rocks of precambrian age i e those that are more than 542 million years old are exposed at the surface. 10120000 kanada bonne rigobert andré. Canadian shield one of the world s largest geologic continental shields centred on hudson bay and extending for 8 million square km 3 million square miles over eastern central and northwestern canada from the great lakes to the canadian arctic and into greenland with small extensions into northern minnesota wisconsin michigan and new york u s.

The canadian shield is rich in natural resources including minerals forests and freshwater. Muskeg moose and minerals this region is the largest one of them all. It spans eastern northeastern and east central canada and the upper midwestern united states. The shield was rifted apart between canada and greenland by seafloor spreading in the labrador sea and in baffin bay between 90 and 40 million years ago.

The first modern hard rock mine in the canadian shield near madoc ontario opened in 1866 after gold was found there. Map of the dominion of canada 1. East sheet 1. A huge inland sea called hudson bay extends into the heart of canada and wrapped around this bay is a rocky region called the canadian shield.

The rift subsequently moved to the east of greenland forming the reykjanes ridge that now separates the north american plate from the european plate. Pulp paper map of canada 1. It spans eastern northeastern and east central canada and the upper midwestern united states. 5000000 john bartholomew and son.

The canadian shield is also called the laurentian plateau or bouclier canadien french. The canadian shield is a broad region of precambrian rock pictured in shades of red that encircles hudson bay. Canada s largest geographical feature it stretches east to labrador south to kingston on lake ontario and northwest as far as the arctic ocean.