Canada's Regions Flashcards
What is the capital of the Northwest Territories?
Yellowknife
In what Atlantic province is the Bay of Fundy?
Nova Scotia
The Great Lakes are located:
Between Ontario and the United States
Which province is Canada’s largest producer of pulp and paper because of its huge supply of fresh water?
Quebec
What is the highest mountain in Canada?
Mount Logan
Where is Canada’s busiest and largest port located?
Vancouver, B.C.
What is the capital of Manitoba?
Winnipeg
Where is the headquarters of the navy’s Pacific fleet?
Victoria
What province is known for being the setting of the book, ‘Anne of Green Gables’ by Lucy Montgomery?
Prince Edward Island
What is the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador?
St. John’s
Which province is a leader in the pharmaceuticals and aeronautics industries?
Quebec
Which province has the most extensive park system with approximately 600 provincial parks?
British Columbia
What is the capital of British Columbia?
Victoria
Where did the miners come to during the Gold Rush of the 1890s?
Yukon
Which province is the country’s largest producer of grains and oilseeds?
Saskatchewan
What is the national capital of Canada?
Ottawa
What province is home to the military tattoo festival as well as over 700 other annual festivals?
Nova Scotia
Where is it known for its spectacular tourist excursion of a railway which crosses many passes and bridges?
Yukon
In whose honour is Mount Logan named for?
Sir William Logan, a famous geologist and great scientist
Which of the Great Lakes is the largest freshwater lake in the world?
Lake Superior
What is the name of Winnipeg’s French Quarter?
St. Boniface
What province has its own time zone?
Newfoundland and Labrador
Whose economy in the Prairie Provinces is based on mining, hydro-electric generation and agriculture?
Manitoba
What is the capital of New Brunswick?
Fredericton
Which province is an important centre of Ukrainian culture at 14% reporting Ukrainian origins?
Manitoba
In which province do more than one third of Canadians live?
Ontario
What is the largest city in Saskatchewan?
Saskatoon
What are the five distinct regions of Canada?
Atlantic Provinces, Central Canada, Prairie Provinces, West Coast, North
What province has the largest French speaking population outside of Quebec?
Ontario
Which province is known as the “wheat province” as it is known as Canada’s largest producer of grains and oilseeds?
Saskatchewan
What is the largest city in New Brunswick?
Saint John
What is the capital of Saskatchewan?
Regina
What language is the official language of Nunavut and the first language in schools?
Inuktitut
Which province is the only officially bilingual province?
New Brunswick
What is the capital of Ontario?
Toronto
What is NOT considered a characteristic of the Atlantic provinces?
- Cool winters
- Cool humid summers
- Natural resources
- Hot humid summers
Hot humid summers
What is known as the gateway to the Asia-Pacific?
Port of Vancouver
What is the name of the second largest river system on North America’s coastline?
St. John River System
What is the most populous city in Manitoba?
Winnipeg
Which province has 40% of the arable land in Canada?
Saskatchewan
Which province is known for being the main producer of hydro-electricity, pulp and paper?
Quebec
What province is known for having played an important role in Atlantic trade and defence?
Nova Scotia
Which province is the most easterly point in North America?
Newfoundland and Labrador
What region, in land mass, covers one third of Canada?
The North
What province has one of the longest continuous multispan bridges in the world connecting to mainland Canada?
Prince Edward Island
Which province boasts the world’s richest deposits in uranium and potash, used in fertilizer?
Saskatchewan
What province is the known for being the most populous Atlantic province?
Nova Scotia
Which country borders Canada to the south?
The United States
In which geographic region do more than half the people of Canada live?
Central Canada
What is the capital of Nova Scotia?
Halifax
Where was the coldest temperature ever recorded from (-63*)?
Yukon
Which is the most populous Prairie province?
Alberta
In the province of New Brunswick, what is the largest port and manufacturing centre?
Saint John
Of the five regions, which region in Canada is known as the industrial and manufacturing heartland?
Central Canada
About how many people live in the province of Ontario?
More than 12 million
What province is known for its Gaelic and Celtic traditions?
Nova Scotia
What is the name of one of the longest continuous multispan bridge in the world?
Confederation Bridge
In the province of New Brunswick, what percentage of the population lives and works in French?
About one-third
What provinces are referred to as the Atlantic provinces?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
What province is known as the gateway to Canada?
Nova Scotia
What is the capital of Prince Edward Island?
Charlottetown
Which Prairie province is renowned for its agriculture, especially their vast cattle ranches?
Alberta
In what territory is more than half the population Aboriginal (Dene, Inuit, Métis)?
Northwest Territories
Which is NOT a characteristic of the Prairie Provinces?
- Beautiful beaches
- Rich in energy resources
- Some of the most fertile farmland in the world
- Dry, with cold winters and hot summers
Beautiful beaches
What city is Canada’s second largest city?
Montreal
What province is known for its red soil and agriculture, especially potatoes?
Prince Edward Island
What is the approximate population of Canada?
34 million
Who was Lake Louise and the Province of Alberta named after?
Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter
Where does the 19-member Legislative Assembly choose a premier and ministers by consensus?
Nunavut
What is the capital of Quebec?
Québec City
Which province is known as “the breadbasket of the world”?
Saskatchewan
Which province has the largest Aboriginal population of any province?
Manitoba
What province was founded by the United Empire Loyalists?
New Brunswick
In what Prairie province is the most famous street intersection and its name?
Manitoba, Portage and Main
What are the Prairie Provinces?
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta
In which province is Canada’s most valuable forest industry, where about one-half of the goods produced are forestry products, such as lumber, paper and newsprint?
British Columbia
Who chose Ottawa as the capital of Canada?
Queen Victoria
What is NOT considered a characteristic of Central Canada?
- It is considered the gateway to Canada
- More than half the people live in cities and towns near the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River
- The region produces more than three-quarters of all Canadian manufactured goods
- It is known as the manufacturing and industrial heartland
It is considered the gateway to Canada
Which province is Canada’s main producer of pulp and paper?
Quebec
What Atlantic province relies on off-shore oil, gas extraction and has immense hydro-electric resources?
Newfoundland and Labrador
Which province is home to five national parks, including Banff National Park?
Alberta
Where is the wine industry Okanagan Valley located?
British Columbia
What is the capital of New Brunswick?
Fredericton
Which province has the second largest river system on North America’s Atlantic coastline?
New Brunswick
In terms of land area, Canada is the?
Second largest country on earth
What three oceans border Canada?
Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic
Who founded and directed the Geological Survey of Canada?
Sir William Logan
What province is known as the birthplace of Confederation?
Prince Edward Island
What place is called the “diamond capital of North America”?
Yellowknife
What province is known for its identity being linked to shipping and ship building?
Nova Scotia
What province on the Atlantic Coast is known for its coastal fishing villages and fisheries?
Newfoundland and Labrador
What is the capital of Alberta?
Edmonton
Which Western province has Canada’s largest Francophone community?
Manitoba
Canada has three territories and how many provinces?
10
Where are some of the world’s richest deposits of prehistoric fossils and dinosaur finds?
Badlands, Alberta
Where is the home of the training academy for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
Regina
Where in Canada is the population about 85% Inuit?
Nunavut
What are the territories of Northern Canada?
Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
In what year did Nunavut become a territory?
1999
What province is situated on the Appalachian Range?
New Brunswick
In what province or territory is Lake Louise?
Alberta
About how many people live in the province of Quebec?
Nearly eight million
What province is known for having the largest east coast port?
Nova Scotia
In the province of New Brunswick, what is the principal Francophone Acadian centre?
Moncton
Which is incorrect concerning Ottawa?
- It is surrounded by the National Capital Region of 4700 square kilometres
- It was named by Queen Elizabeth I
- It is located on the Ottawa River
- It became the capital in 1857
It was named by Queen Elizabeth I
Which province is Canada’s westernmost on the Pacific coast?
British Columbia
Of Quebec’s population, how many speak French as their first language?
More than three-quarters
What province has a long history of coal mining, forestry and agriculture industries?
Nova Scotia
What province is known for its beautiful beaches?
Prince Edward Island
What is the capital of the Yukon Territory?
Whitehorse
Where is Mount Logan?
Yukon
Which province is the largest producer of oil and gas?
Alberta
What was the former capital of Nunavut known as?
Frobisher Bay
What Canadian region is often referred to as the Land of the Midnight Sun?
The North
Because of this province’s large Asian communities, Chinese and Punjabi are the most spoken languages after English. Which province is it?
British Columbia
Which is NOT a characteristic of the terrain of the Northern Territories?
- Most of the land is arable
- It is made up of tundra
- It is a vast rocky Arctic plain
- The soil is permanently frozen
Most of the land is arable
What is the capital of Nunavut?
Iqaluit
What is referred to as Central Canada?
Ontario, Quebec
What region is known for its vineyards, wines and fruit crops?
The Niagara Region
Where is the headquarters to the mining industry in Saskatchewan?
Saskatoon
What province is known for having the largest naval base?
Nova Scotia
Which is the smallest province in land mass?
Prince Edward Island
What city is Canada’s financial centre?
Toronto
In what province or territory is the Mackenzie River – the second largest river system in North America?
Northwest Territories
What city is Canada’s largest city?
Toronto
In land area, Canada is how many square kilometres?
10 million
Name the five Great Lakes.
Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior (HOMES)
What province is known for the Bay of Fundy, a place where the world’s highest tides are found?
Nova Scotia
What originally made up the Northwest Territories?
Rupert’s Land and North-Western territory
Of the five regions, which region in Canada is known for being rich in energy resources and fertile farmland?
Prairie Provinces
