warm-up 1.what item is featured on the canadian flag? 2.the official language(s) of canada is(are):...
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Warm-up
1. What item is featured on the Canadian flag?
2. The official language(s) of Canada is(are):
3. What’s the national sport for Canada?
• Set up your notes on the back of your Canada sketch map:P – Political system S – Society & culture
E – Economy I - InnovationsR – Religion A – Area: physical geography
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Canada!!!
A Virtual Road Trip
• Look for the letter in the upper left-hand corner
• Write the information in RED in the appropriate box on your PERSIA chart
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Our Neighbor to the north• U.S. is Canada’s largest trade partner
– Oil and logging industry is very important– Canada is a world leader in the production of
many natural resources such as gold, diamonds, uranium, copper, and lead.
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Introduction to Canada• Canada is the world’s second largest country (size)• Population = 34 million
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• Before we go, we need a little history…
Historians have come to believe that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach the Americas, about 1,000 years ago.
Almost 500 years passed before Europeans took up an interest in sailing across the Atlantic.
Europeans had a desire to trade with Asia and this led to a search for a Northwest PassageWhat was so special in Asia?
Silk, spices, perfume, diamonds, spices, rubies, pearls, and spices!
Quebec was the beginning of the first French colony in North America, which was called New France.
Quebec City, along the St. Lawrence River, was the first of the permanent settlement in 1608.
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Montreal
Quebec City
Quebec (province)
By 1763, the British had taken control of Canada. But they did allow the French the right to maintain their own culture.
In 1867, the British Government created the self-governing Dominion of Canada
• The British divided Canada into provinces, which are governmental districts
• Today there are 10 provinces and 3 territories
What two countries had the most amount of influence on the development of Canada?
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• Maintains British ties and British monarch
• They have a parliament—a legislature led by a prime minister
• They are democratic- government with a prime minister and parliament
Canada’s government:
Queen Elizabeth is Head of State
Head of Government is Prime Minister Stephen Joseph Harper
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Language in Canada
• Two official languages: English and French• Why are both of these languages present?
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Now, let’s start our journey! First stop is to the Atlantic Provinces….
Atlantic Provinces
Nova Scotia
Atlantic Provinces
We’ll go fishing in the Grand Banks!
Atlantic Provinces
Bridge connecting Prince Edward Island with New Brunswick
Next Stop: Heartland provinces: Quebec and Ontario
• Most densely settled areas of Canada are in southern Quebec and Ontario, along the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Heartland Provinces: Quebec and Ontario
• Much of this region has a humid continental climate type
= region has 4 distinct seasons; long cold winters and short warm summers
Montreal: Humid Continental Climate type
Lunch Time!
• Poutine
Quebec• You may have a difficult time
communicating with the people of Quebec. Why?
• French is spoken in Quebec. In fact, the people work to maintain cultural independence.
• Signs, official documents must be in French
Sign: “everything in French and only in
French”
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Quebec• The mainly French-speaking people of the province
of Quebec have pressed in the recent past for increased autonomy or even secession—
• The separatists lost two independence referendums, one decisively in 1980, the other narrowly in 1995.
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• Toronto, Ontario
Lake Ontario
Next Stop: Prairie Provinces
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan wheat farm(market-oriented agriculture)
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Saskatchewan: This photograph captures the wide-open spaces of the prairies and the low, rolling topography.
Edmonton, Alberta
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Alberta: Has the richest oil deposits in Canada
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Prairie Provinces: Alberta: tar sands mining
Tar sands mining: before and afterTar sands: rock or sand layers that contain oil
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• Nov 18. 2014: US Senate narrowly fails to pass Keystone XL pipeline bill
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Countries w/ largest oil reserves
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Alberta Banff National Park
British Columbia
• Like the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., much of BC is covered with forests.
British Columbia
Northern Canada: Boreal Forest (taiga)
- a nearly continuous belt of coniferous (evergreen) trees across North America and Eurasia
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Boreal Forest (taiga)
Logging of the Boreal Forest
Aurora Borealis
Northwest Territories
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Gold opened this northern land, attracting a rush of prospectors and miners who splayed the earth, built up towns and then, after seven decades, closed up the last exhausted gold mine a few years ago. Now there are diamonds. Yellowknife
Northwest Territories
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Northwest Territories (Ekati diamond mine)
Nunavut
• Nunavut (noo-na-voot) is Canada’s newest territory (1999)
• It was created to give the Inuit a self-governing homeland
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Nunavut
• Inuit, not Eskimo!!
Nunavut• 3 times the size of Texas but only 30,000
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Protestant 23.3%
Roman Catholic 42.6%
Majority are Christians, specifically Catholic
Innovations and Technology
--- BASKETBALL!– Electric car heater!– Electron Microscope– Instant Mash Potatoes– Snowmobile, snow blower– Ice Hockey– Garbage bag– Plexiglass
AND MORE !
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