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CANADA

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Canada occupies the northern of North America. In the east Canada reaches up to the Atlantic ocean, in the west up to the Pacific ocean and northward into the Arctic ocean. It’s the world’s second largest country. There is a bridge that links Canada with United States. The population of Canada it’s about 33 millions and it has ten provinces and three territories . Canada’s queen was Elisabeth ∣∣. It’s a multicultural country with both French and English as official languages.

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LoCaTi0n

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HISTORYThe first inhabitants of Canada were native Indian people(eskimo). The history of the white man in the country began in 1497.Canada was taken for France in 1534. In 1763 England got the control of Canada. At that time thousands of British colonies emigrated to Canada from British Isles and America

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Traditional Celebrations

Canada has many celebrations but the most popular are:

ThanksgivingHalloweenCanada dayVictoria day

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Thanksgiving:

Thanks giving day is on the

second Monday in October. It’s

an annual holiday. With this

celebration they give thanks for

the harvest season. They thank

God for the splendid harvest

they had through the year. It’s

family holiday . They all

gathered together for this

special long weekend and eat

the traditional food which is

roast TURKEY!

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Halloween:

Halloween Holiday celebrated on Oct. 31 is the evening of All Saints' Day , observed with traditional games and customs enjoyed by children all around the world. The word Halloween comes from medieval England's All Hallows' eve. Witches and other evil spirits were believed to roam the earth on Halloween evening, playing tricks on human beings especially on kids. Bonfires were lit, offerings were made of dainty foods and sweets, and people would disguise themselves as one of the roaming spirits, to avoid demonic persecution. Survivals of these early practices can be found in countries of Celtic influence today, such as the United States where children go from door to door in costumes demanding “trick or treat” to receive candies and money lately, and because of that Halloween has after Christmas Holiday become children's favorite holiday.

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Canada Day:

Canada Day celebrates the events that

occurred on July 1, 1867, when the British

North America Act created the Canadian

federal government. The British North

America Act proclaimed "one Dominion

under the name of Canada," hence the

original title of the holiday, "Dominion Day."

Dominion Day was officially renamed

"Canada Day" by an Act of Parliament on

October 27, 1982. This change reflected the

policy of successive governments to down

play Canada's colonial origins.

Canada's national celebration is always

observed on July 1, unless that date falls on

a Sunday. Experience the story of the

country , as told through original music,

giant images and spectacular lighting

effects. Living in a vast, bilingual and

multicultural country. Also Canadians have

become some of the best communicators in

the world. Share the songs, poems, stories

and visions that highlight many of our

cultural and technological achievements. Go

celebrate the spirit of a country!

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ViCtoRia Day:

Several Canadian cities hold a parade in honour of the holiday, with the most famous being in the monarch's namesake city of Victoria, British Columbia. This holiday is also often celebrated with fireworks shows.

In Canada, Victoria Day unofficially marks the end of the "winter season" and, thus, the beginning of "Summer". Banff's Sunshine Village, renowned for its lengthy ski season unofficially ends Winter with the Slush Cup, an event that is held annually on Victoria Day. This long weekend also signifies the beginning of spring to gardeners throughout much of the country, as it falls around the time when they can be fairly certain frost will not return until the next autumn or winter.

In some parts of Canada, the holiday is colloquially known as May Two-Four. This phrase has two meanings: the holiday always falls near the date of May 24, and a two-four is Canadian slang for a case of 24 bottles of beer, a common packaging of the drink in Canada

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If you want to enjoy your holiday just visit Canada. With it’s marvelous places such as Toronto- CN Tower, Niagara Falls and the house of Parliament in Ottawa you have great time!! Toronto is the biggest city of Ontario-Canada.

If you have bored by visiting all these historical places you can relax by doing shopping therapy in Toronto’s shopping malls. Also you can visit the CN Tower which is located in downtown Toronto-Ontario. It’s the tallest building in the world, over 550 meters and if you are hungry you can lunch at the restaurant in the top of tower which is rotate every 72 minutes. The elevator is made out of glass and to visit the tower it costs 32 dollars. If your lucky and it’s a clear day you can have a spectacular view of the whole Toronto town. CN Tower refer to Canadian National ,the railway company.

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NIAGARA FALLS:

Niagara falls is a Canadian city about an 1 ½ hour from Toronto. Separating the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S State of New York . It’s composed of two sections. Horse shoes on the Canadian side of the boarder and American Falls, on the U.S side. The volume of water it’s about 150.000 gallons per second, the height is 176 feet. The tremendous volume of water never stops flowing and during the winter time because of the low temperature which is below 0 the falls freze and turn into on ice bridge.

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CANADAS WONDERLAND

Canada’s Wonderland is located

on 30km north of downtown

Toronto. It’s an amusement

seasonal park with 200

attractions ( 68 thrill rides, 15

roller coasters, 20 acre

waterparks,16water slides and

lots of shows. You can spend a

whole day to be able to enjoy

everything there and get your

money worth, since the ticket is

very expensive!!!. The

nickelodeon characters, such as

SpongeBob, Square Pants and

Dora the Explorer amuse children

and have fun with them

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Name: Katerina TrichinaClass: A’3School: Lyceum DasoupolisDate: 10/11/08