CANADA
Canada is the second largest country in the Word. The capital city is Ottawa. The biggest city is Toronto. Other largest cities are Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, Hamilton …
It is an independent federal parliamentary system with Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state. She is represented in Canada by the Governor -General.
Canada is consist of 10 provinces and 2 territories. The biggest province is Quebec.
Geography
It neighbours with the USA – with Alsaska and the Great lakes area. This border is the longest undefended border in the world. The Great Lakes Region is the largest area of fresh water in the world. There are famous Niagara Falls. We can find also other big and beautiful lakes in Canada – Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Lake Winnipeg …
Canada has large mountain areas – the Rocky Mountains, the Mackenzi Mountains and the Melville Hills.
The highest mountain is Mt. Logan in the Alaska Region.
The longest river is the Mackenzie and other rivers are the Yukon, Columbia…
People
Canada has 32 million inhabitants. 60% of population speak English and 30% speak French.
History
The original inhabitants come to Canada from Asia. The first Europeans are the Vikings. Canada is rediscovered by the Italian John Cabot in 1497.
Economy
Canada has mainly coal, metal, oil and gas. Almost half the land area of Canada is covered by forests.
Other symbols of the country: moose, beaver, grizzly, maple syrup
Popular sports: ice-hockey, curling, figure skating
National symbol: maple leaf on the flag
climate: north – extremely cold
west coast – mild summers, cool winters
central Canada – short, mild summers, very cold winter
Cities
Ottawa
The capital city of Canada is Ottawa and the fourth the biggest city of Canada.
Ottawa has got 803 391 peoples. Ottawa consist of Kanata, Nepean, Downtown, Gloucester, Orleans and Cumberland.
Québec
Québec is capital city of Canadian province. City has about half a million inhabitants. There are still town wall and from year 1985 is include in sights of UNESCO.
Montreal
Montreal was the largest city in Canada. Originally is called “City of Mary”. The official language is French. The population of the Montreal was 3,6 millions inhabitants. There are large diference between summer and winter. Montreal’s Metro has 68 stations spread out along its four lines and Montreal has two international airports.
University: Université de Montréal (UdeM) is the second largest research university in Canada. McGill University is one of the oldest and most renowned schools in Canada.
Vancouver
The most important buildings in Vancouver are for example Christ church Cathedral, the Hotel Vancouver and the Vancouver Art Gallery. There are a lot of museums and galleries. There are two main public Universities – University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU). Vancouver is the port town. Summer moons are sunny with nice temperature. In winter temperature moves around 8 degree.