Canada's Regions Flashcards
How big is Canada?
Canada is the second largest country on earth; it has 10 million square kilometres.
What are the three oceans bordering Canada?
The Pacific Ocean to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
What is on the southern edge of Canada?
The boundary between the U.S.A. and Canada.
What are the five distinct regions of Canada?
The Atlantic Region, Central Canada, the Prairie Provinces, the West Coast, and the North.
What provinces are sometimes referred to as the Atlantic Provinces?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick.
What is the population of Canada?
About 34 million.
Who chose Ottawa to be the capital of Canada? When?
Queen Victoria, 1857.
What is Queen Victoria’s relationship to the current Queen, Queen Elizabeth II?
Queen Victoria is the great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
What is Canada’s fourth largest metropolitan area?
Ottawa
What is the area around Ottawa, including Ottawa, called?
National Capital Region.
What is a tourist attraction in Ottawa?
Ottawa’s Rideau Canal
How many provinces and territories does Canada have?
Canada has ten provinces and three territories.
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
What is the capital city of Nova Scotia?
Halifax
What is the capital city of Ontario?
Toronto
What is the capital city of Manitoba?
Winnipeg
What is the capital city of British Columbia?
Victoria
What is the capital city of Yukon?
Whitehorse
What types of industries do the Atlantic Provinces have?
Fishing, farming, forestry and mining.
Which province is in the most easterly part of North America?
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Which province has its own time zone?
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Which province is the smallest province?
Prince Edward Island.
What is PEI known for?
Beaches, red soil and agriculture, especially potatoes.
What is the name of the longest bridge in Canada? How long is it?
The Confederation Bridge; 13 km long.
What is the name of the famous book from PEI?
Anne of Green Gables.
Does Nova Scotia have the smallest population in the Atlantic region?
No. It has the largest population out of all the Atlantic provinces.
What industries does Nova Scotia specialize in?
Shipbuilding, fishing, and shipping.
Where does Nova Scotian culture come from?
Celtic and Gaelic traditions.
What mountain range is New Brunswick in?
The Appalachian Range.
Who founded New Brunswick?
United Empire Loyalists.
Why is the Saint John River System important?
It is the second largest river system on the Atlantic coast.
What is the capital of New Brunswick?
Fredericton
What makes New Brunswick different from other provinces and territories?
It is the only officially bilingual province.
Where does more than half of Canada’s population live?
In Central Canada.
What provinces are located in Central Canada?
Ontario and Quebec.
What is Central Canada known for being?
The industrial and manufacturing heartland of Canada.
What language do more than 75% of Quebecois residents speak as their first language?
French.
What are the most important industries in Quebec?
Forestry, energy and mining.
What is Quebec’s capital city?
Quebec City.
What is the world’s second largest French-speaking city?
Montreal.
How many people live in Ontario?
12 million people.
Why is Toronto an important city in Ontario?
It is the largest city in Canada. It is also Canada’s financial centre.
Who founded Ontario?
United Empire Loyalists.
What are the names of the Great Lakes located between Ontario and the U.S.?
Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior.
What are Manitoba’s main industries?
Agriculture, mining and hydro-electric power generation.
What cultures or communities does Manitoba have?
Francophone and Ukrainian.
Does Manitoba have a small Aboriginal community?
No. It has the largest Aboriginal population of any province in Canada. The Aboriginal population is over 15%.
What was Saskatchewan once known as?
The breadbasket of the world, or the wheat province.
What is the capital of Saskatchewan?
Regina
What police force has a training academy in this province?
The RCMP.
Which province has the largest population in the Prairies?
Alberta.
Where did Alberta get it’s name?
From the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria; Princess Louise Caroline Alberta.
Name one of Alberta’s national parks.
Banff National Park
What does Alberta produce the most of in Canada?
Oil, gas and beef.
What is Canada’s largest and busiest port?
The Port of Vancouver.
What is British Columbia’s biggest industry?
Forestry.
What is British Columbia’s biggest ethnic community?
Asian communities.
What is the North sometimes called? Why?
The Land of the Midnight Sun, because in the summer daylight can last up to 24 hours.
How much of Canada’s land mass does the North take up?
One third.
What kind of climate and land does the North have?
It has an Arctic climate, and is made up of tundra. Tundra has frozen soil under the top layer of the ground, and no trees.
What kind of art is made in the North and sold in Canada and around the world?
Inuit Art.
What happened in the 1890s in the Yukon territory?
The Gold Rush. It was a time when many people hurried (rushed) to go north to try to get rich from the gold in the Yukon
What is the highest mountain in Canada?
Mount Logan.
What is an important part of this territory’s economy? Yukon
Mining
What was the Northwest Territories originally made up of in 1870?
Land from Rupert’s land, which was land that drained into the Hudson’s Bay.
What is the capital of the Northwest Territories?
Yellowknife
What is Yellowknife sometimes called?
The diamond capital of North America.
What group makes up more than half of the population?
Aboriginal peoples (Dene, Inuit, Métis).
What does the name Nunavut mean?
It means “our land” in Inuktitut.
What is the capital of Nunavut?
Iqaluit
In Nunavut, how are ministers and a premier chosen?
By consensus.
What percentage of the population is Inuit? Nunavut
85%.
What is the official language of Nunavut?
Inuktitut
