CANADA

ABOUT CANADA
• Canada is a country located in the • Canada's climate varies widely
northern part of North America. across its vast area, ranging from
• Canada's southern border with the arctic weather in the north, to hot
United States is the world's longest summers in the southern regions,
bi-national land border. with four distinct seasons.
• As a whole, Canada is sparsely
populated, the majority of its land
area being dominated by forest and
tundra.
• Its capital is Ottawa, and its three
largest metropolitan areas are
Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
 POLITICAL SYSTEM
• Canada is a federal parliamentary
democracy and a constitutional
monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being
the head of state.
• The country is officially bilingual at the
federal level. It is one of the world's most
ethnically diverse and multicultural
nations, which is the product of large-
scale immigration from many other
countries.
• Its advanced economy is the tenth-
largest in the world, relying chiefly upon
its abundant natural resources and well-
developed international trade networks.
• Canada has long and complex
relationship with the United States who
has had a significant impact on its
economy and culture.
 SPORTS IN CANADA
• The most common sports in Canada are: ice hockey, lacrosse, football,
soccer, basketball, curling and baseball. Ice hockey and lacrosse are the
official winter and summer sports.
• In 1867., George Beers, a Canadian lacrosse player, set the rules for the
game.
• Lacrosse is a fast team sport played with a ball and stick with net pocket.
• The game is devided into four 15 minutes quarters
• The mean’s team consists of 10
players while the women’s
team has 12 players.
• In lacrosse only goal keeper
may touch the boal with the
hands.
MICHAEL SMITH
• Michael Smith is Canadian chef which has
hosted many cooking shows which can be
seen all over the world.
• He has writen a great number of cookery
books.
• He promotes simple home cooking and tries
to make families all over the world create their
own helthy food lifestyles.
• He has come up with a lot of recipes in witch
he uses maple syrup.
 JAMES CAMERON
• James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 Ontario, Canada.
• He moved to the United States in 1971.
• Cameron's Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time at
$2.19 billion and $2.78 billion respectively.
• Cameron also holds the distinction of having directed two of the three films in
history to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
 MAPLE
• Maple leaf is the characteristic leaf
of the maple tree, and it is the most
widely recognized national symbol
of Canada.
• Maple syrup is often used as a
condiment for pancakes, waffles,
French toast, oatmeal or porridge.
• It is also used as an ingredient in
baking and as a sweetener or
flavouring agent. Culinary experts
have praised its unique flavour.
• In the atumn maple leaf turns red
and the forests appear to be on fire.
 ANIMALS IN CANADA
• In Canada we can find various kinds of animals: grizzly bears,
mooses, gray woolfs, whales, bisons, beaves, foxes…
 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CANADA
• Canada is home to the longest street in the world. Yonge Street in Ontario
starts at Lake Ontario, and runs north through Ontario to the Minnesota
border, a distance of almost 2,000 km.
• A bear cub named Winnipeg was exported from Canada to the London Zoo in
1915. A little boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved to visit Winnipeg, or
Winnie for short. His love for the bear cub inspired the stories written by his
father, A.A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh.
• Canada holds the record for the most gold
medals ever won at the Winter Olympics,
taking 14 Golds at the 2010. Vancouver
Winter Olympics.
• Ontario is believed to be home to the world's
smallest jail, which measures only 24.3 sq
metres.
• A part of the country actually has less gravity
than the rest of Earth.
• Canadian James Naismith invented basketball
to give his physical education students an
indoor team sport to play during the long
winters.
• The natives of eastern Canada tell several
stories of a mythical giant named
Glooscap, who carved out many of the
region's natural features to help him
overcome his evil twin brothers.
• 77% of the maple syrup produced in the
entire world is made right in Quebec.
• It’s actually illegal to have a comic book
that shows anything to do with crimes.
• You can actually apologize in a court of
law. We’re not just talking about saying
you’re sorry for doing something. You can
actually sign a document that instead of
announcing your guilt announces that you
legally and officially apologize for the act
and that can be as good as a punishment!
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