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This is a nonexistent water route that supposedly flowed through North America to Asia

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Northwest Passage

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This is the oldest business in Canada

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Hudson’s Bay Company

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This is the only public highway north of the Arctic Circle open year-round

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Dempster Highway

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This is the gold rush of 1897

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Klondike Gold Rush

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This is the war between the English and French over North American boundaries

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The Seven Years War

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The land claimed by France in the New World (including Canada)

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New France

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This city is known as the “Gateway to the West”

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Winnipeg

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This city is known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”

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Churchill

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This city is known as one of the world’s largest inland ports

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Montreal

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This city is “Canada’s Gateway to the Pacific”

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Vancouver

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The capital of Canada

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Ottawa

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This city is the largest city in Canada

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Toronto

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This is the only walled city north of Mexico

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Quebec City

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This body of water has some of the world’s highest tides

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Bay of Fundy

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This is Canada’s longest river

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Mackenzie River

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This is the largest freshwater lake in the world

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Lake Superior

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This is Canada’s highest peak

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Mt. Logan

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This is one of the world’s most beautiful waterfalls found in both Canada and the United States.

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Niagara Falls

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The world’s largest bay

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Hudson Bay

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The world’s largest inland seaway

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St. Lawrence Seaway

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The first modern explorer to reach the North American mainland

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John Cabot

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This explorer opened the way for trade between the French and Native Americans

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Jacques Cartier

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This explorer helped establish the first important French settlement,Quebec

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Samuel de Champlain

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This explorer discovered the world’s largest bay

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Henry Hudson

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This Canadian missionary to China later wrote books telling of the missionary work

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Isobel Kuhn

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These British explorers mapped Canada’s Pacific coast

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Captain Cook and Captain Vancouver

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This man is called the “Apostle of Nova Scotia”

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Henry Aline

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This man was one of the first pioneer missionaries to Manitoba, Canada

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James Evans

29
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These two Canadian researchers helped discover a treatment for diabetes.

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Frederick Banting and Charles Best

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This is the name for the French settlers who refused to pledge their loyalty to the British crown

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The Acadians

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This is the name for the American colonists who moved to Canada rathe than fight against their king in the War for Independence

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The Loyalists

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This is one of Canada’s most important natural resources

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Fish

33
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Canada is the largest world producer of __________ and __________

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Zinc and nickel

34
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Canada leaders the world in the production of this product

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Newsprint

35
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Canada is one of the world’s leading exporters of this product

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Wheat

36
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Canada’s government is a

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Constitutional monarchy

37
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This is the name for Canada’s world famous police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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The Mounties

38
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Canada’s two official languages are:

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English and French

39
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One important fact about the Great Lakes is

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That they are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world.

40
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The Great Lakes contain approximately_____ of the world’s fresh water

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One fifth

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A second fact about the Great Lakes is that Lake Superior is

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The largest freshwater lake in the world.

42
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Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake

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That does not touch Canada

43
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Niagara Falls is located between these two Great Lakes

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Lake Erie & Lake Ontario

44
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The St. Lawrence Seaway is a waterway between the

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Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes

45
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Canada recognizes the British monarch as

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The head of state even though it is an independent country

46
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The leader of the nation of Canada is called

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The Prime Minister

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Canada has a parliament that is similar to the United States

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Congress

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This Canadian government official represents the British monarch

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The Governor General

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