About Canada
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Publicado: 23 de octubre de 2012
I would like to start with a question: what do we really know about Canada?
Canada is the second largest country in the world and it is located in the Northern North America, bordering the NorthAtlantic Ocean on the east, North Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Arctic Ocean on the north besides it is located on the north of the conterminous US.
Canada´s capital is Ottawa and some otherimportant cities are:Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, among others.
In this presentation we will be discussing three main points about Canada: its history, its government and its culture.
Before westart I would like to give some extra information about this wonderful country:
Languages: English, FrenchMonetary unit: Canadian dollar
Population (2012 est.): 34,300,083
Infant mortality rate:4.85/1000
Life expectancy: 81.48 years
Of all of the world's producers of natural gas, copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, and gold, Canada is in the top five
Religions: Roman Catholic 44.4%, Protestant29%, other Christian 4.2%,Muslim 2%, other 4%.
History:
The first inhabitants of Canada were native Indian peoples, primarily the Inuit (Eskimo). The Norse explorer Leif Eriksson probably reachedthe shores of Canada (Labrador or Nova Scotia) in 1000, but the history of the white man in the country actually began in 1497, when John Cabot, an Italian in the service of Henry VII of England,reached Newfoundland or Nova Scotia.
Canada was taken for France in 1534 by Jacques Cartier. The actual settlement of New France, as it was then called, began in 1604 at Port Royal in what is now NovaScotia; in 1608, Quebec was founded. France's colonization efforts were not very successful, but French explorers by the end of the 17th century had penetrated beyond the Great Lakes to the westernprairies and south along the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
Meanwhile, the English Hudson's Bay Company had been established in 1670. Because of the valuable fisheries and fur trade, a conflict...
Canada is the second largest country in the world and it is located in the Northern North America, bordering the NorthAtlantic Ocean on the east, North Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Arctic Ocean on the north besides it is located on the north of the conterminous US.
Canada´s capital is Ottawa and some otherimportant cities are:Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, among others.
In this presentation we will be discussing three main points about Canada: its history, its government and its culture.
Before westart I would like to give some extra information about this wonderful country:
Languages: English, FrenchMonetary unit: Canadian dollar
Population (2012 est.): 34,300,083
Infant mortality rate:4.85/1000
Life expectancy: 81.48 years
Of all of the world's producers of natural gas, copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, and gold, Canada is in the top five
Religions: Roman Catholic 44.4%, Protestant29%, other Christian 4.2%,Muslim 2%, other 4%.
History:
The first inhabitants of Canada were native Indian peoples, primarily the Inuit (Eskimo). The Norse explorer Leif Eriksson probably reachedthe shores of Canada (Labrador or Nova Scotia) in 1000, but the history of the white man in the country actually began in 1497, when John Cabot, an Italian in the service of Henry VII of England,reached Newfoundland or Nova Scotia.
Canada was taken for France in 1534 by Jacques Cartier. The actual settlement of New France, as it was then called, began in 1604 at Port Royal in what is now NovaScotia; in 1608, Quebec was founded. France's colonization efforts were not very successful, but French explorers by the end of the 17th century had penetrated beyond the Great Lakes to the westernprairies and south along the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
Meanwhile, the English Hudson's Bay Company had been established in 1670. Because of the valuable fisheries and fur trade, a conflict...
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