2. Geography Canada’s territory combined makes it the worlds second largest country by land mass. The Provinces are Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ne Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewa. The territories are Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon.
3. Geography cont. Canada Spans the territory between the Pacific and Atlantic ocean. It occupies about 41% of North America. To the North lies a vast rock base known as the Canadian Shield To the south lies the Appalachian Mountains and the Great Lakes.
4. People Most of the people in Canada are ethnically British or French. The largest occupied urban areas are in Quebec, Ontario, and central Canada. French and English are the official languages but English is more widely spoken.
5. People cont. Canada is dominated by English Canada in terms of national identity. Canada has seen successive waves of immigration from Netherlands, Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, China, and Japan due to its legislated binationalism and biculturalism. Class symbolism in Canada is modest, mainly due to the rhetoric of identity that prices diversity and even humility.
6. Culture Canada is often symbolically connected with three key images: hockey, the beaver, and the maple leaf. Hockey carries the same symbolic weight that baseball does in America. The beavers special merit as a cultural symbol is its industriousness, triumph over the seasons, and the beaver is seen as humble, non-predatory, and diligent, values that form the fundamental core of Canadian self-identification.
7. Culture cont. The Maple Leaf has served as a symbol celebrating the nature and environment of what is Canada since the 18th century. The core values of the symbols are cooperation, industriousness, and patience (a kind of national politeness). The Canadian Identity is something communal rather than individualistic.
8. History The name Canada is from the Iroquoian word kanata, which means village. Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. France held the North American fur trade monopoly in 1604. The first permanent settlement and capital of New France was Quebec City.
9. History cont. The two European colonial powers that shaped Canada were France and Great Britain. After the seven year war the French ceded a majority of their land the British, however the British guaranteed the right of the Canadians practice of the Catholic faith and use of French civil law. In 1960, the Quiet Revolution took place in Quebec, overthrowing the old establishment and modernized the economy and society.
