2. Canada is a country in North America consisting of ten provinces and three
territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic
to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Covering 9.98 million square
kilometres in total, Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area and
the fourth-largest country by land area. Its common border with the United States
forms the world's longest land border.
Canada’s flag
3. Ottawa is the capital of Canada. It
stands on the south bank of
the Ottawa River in the eastern
portion of Southern Ontario
4. Influenced by government structures, much of the city's architecture tends to
be formalistic and functional. However, the city is also marked
by Romantic and Picturesque styles of architecture such as the Parliament
Building's gothic revival architecture.Ottawa's domestic architecture is
dominated by single family homes. There are also smaller numbers of semi-
detached, rowhouses, and apartment buildings. Most domestic buildings are
clad in brick, with small numbers covered in wood or stone.
ARCHİTECTURE
5. MUSEUM
Amongst the city's national museums and galleries is the National Gallery
of Canada; designed by famous architect Moshe Safdie, it is a permanent
home to the Maman sculpture.
6. Toronto is the most populous
city in Canada and
the provincial capital of Ontario. It
is located inSouthern Ontario on
the northwestern shore of Lake
Ontario, with the original city area
lying between
the Don and Humber rivers.
According to the 2011 Census, the
city had 2,615,060 residents while
its census metropolitan area,
which comprises the majority of
the Greater Toronto Area, had a
population of 5,583,064.
7. The Royal Ontario Museum is a museum of world culture and natural
history based in Toronto, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North
America, attracting over one million visitors every year. The museum is
located north of Queen's Park, in the University of Toronto.
8. The Toronto Eaton Centre is
a shopping mall and office complex
in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
named after the now-
defunct Eaton's department store chain
that once anchored it. In terms of the
number of visitors, the shopping mall is
Toronto's top tourist attraction, with
around one million visitors per week.
9. The CN Tower is a 553.33 m-high
concrete communications and
observation tower in Downtown
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The CN Tower is a major tourist
attraction in Toronto.
10. The Niagara Falls are voluminous unter falls on the Niagara River,
Straddling the international border between the Canadian province of
Ontorio and the U.S. State of New York.
11. Canada is famous for inventing the ice hockey which is the
national sport in the county.
12. Canadian cuisine varies widely
depending on the regions of the
nation. The three earliest
cuisines of Canada have First
Nations, English, Scottish and
French roots, with the traditional
cuisine of English
Canada closely related
to British and Scottish cuisines,
while the traditional cuisine
of French Canada has evolved
from French cuisine and the
winter provisions of fur traders.
With subsequent waves of
immigration in the 19th and 20th
century from Central, Southern,
and Eastern Europe, South
Asia, East Asia, and
the Caribbean, the regional
cuisines were subsequently
augmented