Economic development in the declining Maritime Provinces has proven to be an intractable problem over the last 70 years. Efforts have ranged from capitalist industrial resource extraction to worker-owned producer co-operatives. Yet, throughout its many variations, these initiatives have done little to secure the long-term economic security of Canada’s most marginalized rural communities, such as those on the western coast of Cape Breton Island. Efforts toward this end during the closing decades of the twentieth century, up to present date, have applied market-led development strategies paralleling trends in the increasingly fluid global market economy. This local economic development approach, it is argued, reinforces economic dependency established during the last century’s staples commodity extraction, even as it attempts to reduce it and promote communities’ unique socio-cultural values, through ‘local ownership’ of integration into the market economy. An analysis of conventional approaches to economic development and ‘local ownership’, that focuses on two communities in rural western Cape Breton, demonstrates this point. Several alternatives to conventional economic development are considered, with a particular emphasis on the two Cape Breton communities.

Economic development in the declining Maritime Provinces has proven to be an intractable problem over the last 70 years. Efforts have ranged from capitalist industrial resource extraction to worker-owned producer co-operatives. Yet, throughout its many variations, these initiatives have done little to secure the long-term economic security of Canada’s most marginalized rural communities, such as those on the western coast of Cape Breton Island. Efforts toward this end during the closing decades of the twentieth century, up to present date, have applied market-led development strategies paralleling trends in the increasingly fluid global market economy. This local economic development approach, it is argued, reinforces economic dependency established during the last century’s staples commodity extraction, even as it attempts to reduce it and promote communities’ unique socio-cultural values, through ‘local ownership’ of integration into the market economy. An analysis of conventional approaches to economic development and ‘local ownership’, that focuses on two communities in rural western Cape Breton, demonstrates this point. Several alternatives to conventional economic development are considered, with a particular emphasis on the two Cape Breton communities.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-97). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 1998. / Mode of acces: World Wide Web. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-88).

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Thesis (M.A.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland. / Typescript. Bibliography : leaves 203-215. Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2003. / Bibliography: leaves 84-88.

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<p> A sequence of metasedimentary rocks comprising the George River Group, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, was studied. A petrographic examination of the five different rock types present -- marbles, amphibolites, paragneisses, skarn xenoliths, and granitic bodies was carried out. A petrochemical analysis, using X.R.F. methods was also completed.</p> <p> The GRG has undergone three distinct periods of metamorphism. The first was a period of kyanite grade regional metamorphism, believed related to the Grenville orogeny. High grade metamorphic minerals developed in the various lithologies present in the GRG. These minerals were kyanite, diopside, forsterite, hornblende, and muscovite.</p> <p> A chlorite grade regional metamorphism followed, creating such low grade minerals as chlorite, sericite, and serpentine. These minerals formed by the hydrolysis of higher grade metamorphic minerals.</p> <p> Following this low grade metamorphism, the GRG was subjected to a period of wollastonite grade contact metamorphism. This metamorphic period resulted from the injection of smaller granitic bodies believed related to the Acadian orogeny. The formation of contact metamorphic minerals such as, wollastonite, vesuvianite, phlogopite and sphene characterize the assemblages formed by this metamorphic event.</p> <p> The petrochemical analysis shows that these meta-sedimentary GRG rocks had protoliths of several types, including siliceous dolomitic limestones, siliceous limestones, greywackes, and basic volcanic sills. The amphibolites present crossing the GRG formed by the metamorphism of the basic volcanic sills.</p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Science (BSc)