CANADIAN SHIELD
Economic Resources
Some major cities located within the Canadian Shield are Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Churchill, Iqaluit, and Yellowknife.
Some activities that tourist enjoy are sight-seeing (rivers, waterfalls, lakes, vast forests) canoe, fish, and hunt.
Some activities that tourist enjoy are sight-seeing (rivers, waterfalls, lakes, vast forests) canoe, fish, and hunt.
The rocks contains valuable metallic minerals such as lead, gold, nickel copper, and zinc. This is one of the reasons as to why the Canadian Shield has a successful mining industry. Forestry is another successful industry as the Canadian Shield has a large boreal forest approximately the size of the Amazon Rainforest.