1. Prairie Provinces
Alberta
Capital:
Edmonton Manitoba
Other Significant Locations: Capital:
Calgary Winnipeg
(Prairie Town/Winter Olympics) Other Significant Locations:
Banff Lake Winnipeg
(Scenic Rock Mountain tourist town) (holding basin for Saskatchewan River)
Lake Louise Nelson River
Saskatchewan River (drains Lake Saskatchewan into Hudson Bay
(drains Rocky Mountains)
Lake Athabasca
Saskatchewan
Capital:
Regina
Other Significant Locations:
Saskatoon
Lake Athabasca
Reindeer Lake
Saskatchewan River

2. Prairie Provinces
Trains and Grains
RR routes helped Canadians move west in the
1800s; Trains move grain crops in the 1900s;
Trains transport tourists in 2000.
Cities developed along RR lines.
Over half of the population in such and
expansive area lives in cities.

3. Prairie Provinces
Oil and
Natural Gas
Cattle Ranching
Grain Agriculture Badlands and
Sand Dunes

4. British Columbia
Nearly the entire province
is covered with mountains.
Rocky Mountains and
Coast Range (extension of the Cascades)
Capital:Victoria
Largest City:Vancouver
80% of the population lives in or near Vancouver

5. British Columbia
The Inside Passage - a waterway that snakes between
British Columbia and SE Alaska

6. British Columbia
Mining, Commercial
Salmon Fishing, and an
influx of Asians are all
common to British Columbia

7. Territories
Northwest Territories
Capital: Yellowknife
Other Significant Locations:
Mackenzie River
Great Bear Lake
Great Slave Lake
Arctic Circle
Yukon Territory
Capital:
Whitehorse
Other Significant Locations:
Dawson
Haines Junction
Mackenzie Mountains
Arctic Circle

8. Territories
Nunavut
Capital: Iqaluit
Other Significant Locations:
Baffin Island
Ellesmere Island Newest Territory, established in 1999 as a
Resolute Bay and the Northwest Passage settlement with native Inuits.
(Parry Channel)
Magnetic North Pole

9. Nunavut

10. Inuits Mineral resources
are abundant: gold,
silver, copper, iron
native people of the Arctic ore, oil and natural
gas, but are difficult
to mine because of
the climate.
Contact with whites
has given Inuits
advantages
including snow
mobiles and satellite
technology
Inuits live north of the forests, on Arctic
tundra, in a harsh climate, and retain a
close relationship with the land and sea.