摘要：The existence of regional economic disparities is a persisting feature of Canada. Although numerous explanations have been advanced for variations in economic well-being throughout the country, one common element faced by all is the inherent spatial character of the problem (Michalak and Fairbairn 1988). Among the most prominent conceptualizations of the Canadian space-economy that have been advanced in the regional development literature has been the core-periphery, or heartland-hinterland, theory (Green 1990; McCann 1987). This paper focuses attention on the core-periphery conceptualization of the Canadian space-economy as it relates to the development of a system of corporate headquarters centres, or quaternary places, in Canada
