2. Canadian Music
A mix to be enjoyed
• The concentration of population makes the cities of Canada
the best in Urban Life!
• The Art of Music is known worldwide and its schools
strongly emphasize the highest quality of every type
musician.
• One trip to Vancouver, B.C. and you will know.
• The cities provide a concentrated supply and demand for
live music at the highest quality.
• The wide range of English, Irish, French, and other
European musical instruments and flavor of sound makes
Canadian music popular worldwide.
• Native Music is also popular and is well mixed in the
European based sound, and is known worldwide.
3. Canada Movie and Film Industry
Taxes and Filming Costs Hollywood
• Vancouver home to many television series: 21 Jump Street- Airwolf- Astronomy
Today- Battlestar Galactia- Bionic Woman- The Commish- Flash Gordon-
Huckleberry Finn- MacGyver- The Outer Limits- Poltergeist- Smallville- Stagate- The
Wolfman Jack Show are all just a few!
• Toronto has made dozens of movies some are: American Pie- Assault on Precinct
13- Aurora Borealis- Blues Brothers 2000- A change of Mind- Cocktail- Dawn of the
Dead- Dracula- Good Will Hunting- Gotti- The Incredible Hulk- John Q- K-19 The
Widow Maker- Long Kiss Good Night- My Big Fat Greek Wedding- Murder at 1600-
Police Academy(1-4)- Rules of Engagement- True Lies- Transformers- Where the
Truth Lies- Wrong Turn- X-men are just a tiny fraction!
• Many small towns in the interior are home to hundreds of film sets, movie locales,
and other series are produced as well.
• he same venue as the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame!
• Over 100 years ago the Edison Manufacturing Company shot two movies in
Vancouver, B.C., named The Cowpunchers Glove and The Ship’s Husband! --
Yes, the same Famous Canadian Thomas Edison.
• B.C is third in the world at over 1.5BCan$ and 246 motion pictures in 2010.
• Thousands of movies have filmed the beautiful and rugged vast outdoors of
Canada.
4. Canada defines
Top Shelf Architecture
• The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada is a voluntary association established in 1907.
• Canada sets the standard of World Class homes, commercial buildings, public use type buildings,
both irregular design Sky Scrappers and regular symetrical design.
• The Absolute Towers of Calgary (slide 6)
• The 5 Towers of Ottawa.
• The Parliament Buildings of every Province.
• The CN Tower of Toronto and surrounding bldgs.
• Newmarket City Hall.
• The Missisauga City Hall.
• The Museum of Civilization in Ontario.
• Leslie Dan Pharm Building next to Queens Park in Toronto.
• The Canadian Center of Artitecture in Montreal, Quebec.
• Chateau Chambord in Ottawa
• Blois France on Ontario
• Casa Loma Toronto
• Wynnstay Estate Anacaster in Ontario.
• Chateau Laurier in Ottawa
• The many hotels built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in first twenty years of twentieth century.
• These provide only enough to quickly search and gain the depth of this country as first rate.
5. Canadian Food
• The food is Native Indian dishes, English, Irish, Scottish, and French. These foods
have all been brought to the provinces and has mixed among the people as the
people have. The dishes are largely unchanged, however people have taken on
each others food as theirs making Canada one of the best places on Earth to eat!
• One original Canadian dessert everywhere is the NAMAIMO BAR. Chocolate top a
vanilla custard on a coconut and graham cracker crust. Every kid memory of their
high school lunch is for this.
• The rough weather have made recipes that would be more origin call it Canadian
Food: Dried meats, potted meats, Beaver, Tarts, maple syrups, Canadian style
Bacon, Apple pie with cheddar cheese atop and of course Poutine!
• There is no place with such a wide range of everyday food. Most countries are
staple foods indigenous to one, but in Canada you are in a land of multiple cultures
who prepare and eat all different foods which are now considered native to
Canada.
• During the last 40 years all type of orient have become mainstream foods as well.
Vietnamese, Hmong, Cambodian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean restaurants
have thrived here. The hard winters make good parallels for this food, and the
healthy diet has become immensely popular to reduce caloric intake of the
European diets.
6. Canada
Technological Advances Originate
• A review of the Famous Canadians page of this PPT in Part 1 reveals how creative and
educated this population is. It only includes a few teasers to make this point.
• The technical schools of Canada provide most of the highest trained vocational workers in the
world.
• The high standards of certification required by the strict work laws of skilled jobs makes this
so.
• Strict laws protecting K thru 12 students prevents many of the dropout and poor attendance
so prevalent in the US. The system produces a literacy rate of 99% and a 19th worldwide
standing.
• Canada does not have a central or federal education ministry. All thirteen provinces and
territories have their own, and coordinate through the national Council of Education.
• All children are taught together, except rare mental cases. This is to teach children
compassion of those less fortunate and provides gifted children less chance to become
arrogant and all to be less prejudicial.
• The idea of life as a marathon, that steady and even progress is better than sprinting.
Volunteering at charities and senior’s homes is required as part of high school graduation
requirements.
• Canadians constitute less than 1 % of the world’s population.
• Canadians provide more than 10% of the world’s peacekeeping forces in a selfless and
unassuming way. Volunteerism has become a natural thing to do!
