Radio Canada
Canada’s government created the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (the CBC ) in 1936 because it wanted Canadians to have Canadian radio programs. It wanted to use radio to “foster national spirit and interpret national citizenship” in Canada. CBC/Radio-Canada is today is a government owned radio and television service that has separate English and French language networks. A new communications technology, the radio, led to the creation of the CBC. Other new communications technologies made it possible for CBC/Radio-Canada to broadcast its programs to everyone in Canada.CBC/Radio-Canada funds the development of Canadian radio and TV programs. It supports original Francophone and Anglophone writing, music, dance, opera, news and documentaries. CBC radio has also provided a “meeting place” for people in northern Canada, carrying everything from national and local news to bingo and family messages. It airs programs in several First Nations languages and in Inuktitut
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One of the first early models of the Radio
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Impact of urbanization
Until the early 1900s in Canada, more people lived in rural areas than in cities. Starting in the 1920s, this situation was reversed. Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas. This shift of people from rural to urban places is called urbanization. In part, urbanization happened because of technology |
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