canada a place where everybody knows your name.. a very brief history native tribes spread across...
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Canada
A place where everybody knows your name.
A very brief history
Native tribes spread across land now referred to as Canada
1600-1700 European settlements and Hudson Bay Company
1700’s Upper and Lower Canada
1867 Confederation
1950 to present – Bill of Rights and Constitution
Geography• Area: 9,984,670 sq km• highest point: Mount Logan 5,959 m• Natural Resources: iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper,
gold, lead, molybdenum, potash, diamonds, silver, fish, timber, wildlife, coal, petroleum, natural gas, hydropower
• Fast-Facts: second-largest country in world (after Russia); 90% of the population is concentrated within 160 km of the US border
Climate
• Cold … and really cold
Makes no difference to
me …
Languages & Culture
British Isles origin 28 %
French origin 23 %
other European 15 %
Amerindian 2 %
Asian, African, Arab 6 %
Mixed origin 26%
English (official) 59.3%
French (official) 23.2%
other 17.5%
Top 10 Inventions
AM radio Invented by : Guglielmo Marconi
IMAX projector and system
Telephone Invented by : Alexander Graham Bell
Television
Zipper Music Synthesizer
Electron Microscope Trivial Pursuit
BasketballInvented by : James Naismith
Canadarm
Places to go …
Things to see …
Taste the difference …
• Maple Syrup
• Poutine
• Tim Hortons
• Butter Tarts
National Holiday
• Canada Day – July 1st
Resources
• http://www.national-anthems.net/web/find.webpage?from=anthems&what=canada&id=CA
• http://www.2ontario.com/software/presentations_templates.asp
• http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ca.html
• http://www.canadians.ca/top_ten_inventions.htm• http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/
canhist.htm• http://www2.history.ubc.ca/hist426/clips.htm