Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is located on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, across from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in the United States [Figure 1]. With a population of 74,945 [Statistics Canada, 2009], it is the third largest city in Northern Ontario after Sudbury and Thunder Bay. Historically founded by French Jesuits in 1668, and operated as a fur-trading outpost, the city has since focused its economy on steel-manufacturing and, to a lesser extent, the forestry industry; telecommunications call centers, and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG). The largest employer in the municipality, Essar Steel Algoma Inc., employs some 3,500 people and has undergone significant shifts from boom to bust to recovery [Essar Steel, 2009]. Its recent sale to the Essar Group (India) in June 2007 for $1.6 billion is largely related to the significant demand for steel in China which caused a rebound in the global market price of the product. Recently, the city has sought to diversity its economy in order to secure long-term population and business growth not contingent upon the steel-manufacturing industry or natural resource exploitation.
[...] Otherwise, Sault Ste. Marie could become another Britannia Beach, B. C. References Bridge, G. (2002). “Grounding Globalization: The Prospects and Perils of Linking Economic Processes of Globalization to Environmental Outcomes,” Economic Geography, 361-386. Clarkson, S. Multi-Level State: Canada in the Semi-Periphery of Both Continentalism and Globalization,” Review of International Political Economy, 501-527. Community Development Corporation. “Sault Ste. Marie's Economic Diversification Strategy,” Accessed on 6 May < http:>. Essar Steel Algoma Inc. (2009). “Canada Steel Complex.” Corporate website. Accessed on 6 May < http:>. [...]
[...] The lack of concern for environmental factors in targeting development and investment in Sault Ste. Marie was a disturbing feature of the material, as extensive exposure to industrial waste and pollutants contain negative impacts on the natural ecology, and animal and human health. In fact, their zealous willingness for foreign investment, and business development should be tampered against the potential for industrial runoff. Unless, of course, the city has no plans on occupying the land after its industrial tenants depart. [...]
[...] ”Relocating Resource Peripheries to the Core of Economic Geography's Theorizing: Rationale and Agenda,” Area, 15-23. Lauzon, S., Capancioni, M., DiCerbo, J. R. (2008). “Best Practices Guide for Community-Driven Economic Diversification,” Destiny SSM Sault Ste. Marie's Economic Diversification Strategy. Accessed on 6 May < http: id="1">. Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation (2009). “Strategic Mandate.” Official website. Accessed on 6 May . Stenta, B. (2006). “Algoma Steel Embarks [...]
[...] In short, economic growth and contraction were contingent upon the Algoma steel industry, and are now tied to the fortunes of Essar Steel Algoma Inc Contemporary Community Demographic and Economic Profile As it has been previously stated, manufacturing forms the economic pillar of Sault Ste. Marie. Following the economic downturn of 2001, the local economy appeared to be shrinking even when compared with the slow growth witnessed in other northern urban centers in Ontario demonstrating markedly high unemployment and low labor participation [Lauzon, Capancioni, and DiCerbo, 2008]. [...]
[...] That is, in situ development is often neglected to transform the local community and economy beyond its single production-chain utility leaving the locality without economic impetus once the speculated profitability of resource extraction and export is no longer financially viable Historical Economic Geography The original French settlement at Sault Ste. Marie was established as a fur- trapping, and fur-trading outpost dealing primarily with the Ojibwa Indian nation. Throughout its history, the community progressed along the lines of other colonial peripheries by relying on the export of abundant natural resources. [...]
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