Canada A place where everybody knows your name.. A very brief history Native tribes spread across land now referred to as Canada 1600-1700 European settlements.

Canada

A place where everybody knows your name.

A very brief history

Native tribes spread across land now referred to as Canada

1600-1700 European settlements and Hudson Bay Company

1700’s Upper and Lower Canada

1867 Confederation

1950 to present – Bill of Rights and Constitution

Geography• Area: 9,984,670 sq km• highest point: Mount Logan 5,959 m• Natural Resources: iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper,

gold, lead, molybdenum, potash, diamonds, silver, fish, timber, wildlife, coal, petroleum, natural gas, hydropower

• Fast-Facts: second-largest country in world (after Russia); 90% of the population is concentrated within 160 km of the US border

Climate

• Cold … and really cold

Makes no difference to

me …

Languages & Culture

British Isles origin 28 %

French origin 23 %

other European 15 %

Amerindian 2 %

Asian, African, Arab 6 %

Mixed origin 26%

English (official) 59.3%

French (official) 23.2%

other 17.5%

People

• Population: 33,098,932

Top 10 Inventions

AM radio Invented by : Guglielmo Marconi

IMAX projector and system

Telephone Invented by : Alexander Graham Bell

Television

Zipper Music Synthesizer

Electron Microscope Trivial Pursuit

BasketballInvented by : James Naismith

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Places to go …

Things to see …

Taste the difference …

• Maple Syrup

• Poutine

• Tim Hortons

• Butter Tarts

National Holiday

• Canada Day – July 1st

Resources

• http://www.national-anthems.net/web/find.webpage?from=anthems&what=canada&id=CA

• http://www.2ontario.com/software/presentations_templates.asp

• http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ca.html

• http://www.canadians.ca/top_ten_inventions.htm• http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/

canhist.htm• http://www2.history.ubc.ca/hist426/clips.htm