Canada's Regions Flashcards by Maria Díaz

What’s Canada’s ranking in terms of size? What are the oceans around it? What’s Canada’s population? How many regions does it have and what are they called? How many provinces and territories? Mention their capitals.

Second largest country (10 million square km)
Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic
34 million people

5 regions:
-Atlantic Provinces (NL, PEI, NS, NB)
-Central Canada (ON/QC)
-The Prairie Provinces (AL, MA, SA)
-The West Coast (BC)
-The Northern Territories (NWT, NU, YU)

10 provinces:
Alberta (Edmonton)
British Columbia (Victoria)
Manitoba (Winnipeg)
Newfoundland and Labrador (Saint John’s)
New Brunswick (Fredericton)
Nova Scotia (Halifax)
Ontario (Toronto)
Quebec (Quebec City)
Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown)
Saskatchewan (Regina)

3 territories:
North Western Territories (Yellowknife)
Nunavut (Iqaluit)
Yukon (Whitehorse)

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What’s Canada’s National Capital? Who chose it and when? Where is it located? How is it classified and what’s the extension of the area surrounding it?

Ottawa
Queen Victoria, 1857
Ottawa River
4th largest metropolitan area
4700 square km (National Capital Region)

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What’s the Rideau Canal?

A military waterway turned into winter skateway and tourist attraction in Ottawa

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Where is Banff National Park? And Peggy’s Cove harbour?

Alberta
Nova Scotia

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What are characteristics of the Atlantic provinces?

Coasts & natural resources (fishing, farming, forestry, mining)
Atlantic Ocean
Cool winters and cool humid summers

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Which province is the most easterly point in North America, with its own timezone?

Newfoundland and Labrador

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What makes Newfoundland special?

Natural beauty, unique heritage linked to the sea, with fisheries and coastal fishing villages
Oldest colony of the British Empire, strategic prize in Canada’s early history

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What’s a substantial part of Newfoundland and Labrador’s economy?

Off-shore oil and gas extraction
Hydroelectric resources

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Which is the smallest province and what is it known for?

Prince Edward Island
Beaches, red soil, agriculture (potatoes)

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Which province is the birthplace of the Confederation?

Prince Edward Island

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What is the name of one o f the longest continuous multispan bridges in the world and where is it?

Confederation Bridge
Prince Edward Island

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What’s the story set in PEI by Lucy Maud Montgomery?

Anne of Green Gables

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Which is the most populous Atlantic province, known as the gateway to Canada?

Nova Scotia

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Mention some facts about Nova Scotia

World’s highest tides in the Bay of Fundy
Identity linked to shipbuilding, fisheries and shipping
Celtic and Gaelic traditions
700 annual festivals - Military tattoo

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What’s the importance of Halifax?

Canada’s largest east coast port, deep water and ice free
Role in Atlantic trade and defence
Home to Canada’s largest naval base

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What are some economical activities in Nova Scotia?

Coal mining, forestry and agriculture
Off-shore oil and gas exploration

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Where is New Brunswick situated and who founded it?

In the Appalachian Range
United Empire Loyalists

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What’s the second largest river system on North America’s Atlantic coastline? In which province is it?

St. John River system
New Brunswick

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What are the main industries in New Brunswick?

Forestry, agriculture, fisheries, mining, food processing and tourism

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Which is the largest city, port and manufacturing centre of New Brunswick?

Saint John

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What’s the principal Francophone Acadian centre? How much of New Brunswick’s population lives and works in French?

Moncton
One third

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What’s New Brunswick historic capital?

Fredericton

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Where does New Brunswick’s pioneer Loyalist and French cultural heritage and history come alive?

Street festivals and traditional music

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Where does more than half the people in Canada live? How is this region known as?

In cities and towns near the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River (southern Quebec and Ontario)
Central Canada - The industrial and manufacturing heartland

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How much of all the Canadian manufactured goods are produced in Ontario and Quebec?

More than three quarters

How many people live in Quebec, and where does the majority live? How many of them are Francophones?

Nearly 8 million Alon or near St. Lawrence River More than three quarters

Which resources have helped Quebec to develop industries like forestry, energy and mining? What's the main production of Quebec and why?

The resources of the Canadian Shield Pulp, paper and hydro-electricity Huge fresh water supply

What are Quebecers leaders in?

Cutting-edge industries (pharmaceutical and aeronautics) International stature in films, music, literary works and food

What is La Francophonie? What is Canada's second largest city and the second largest mainly French-speaking city in the world (after Paris)? What is this city famous for?

An association of French-speaking nations Montreal Cultural diversity

What's the population of Ontario, and how much is this compared to Canada's total population? What are some advantages of this province, contributing to a vital economy?

More than 12 million One third of Canadians Large and culturally diverse population, natural resources and strategic location

What's the largest city in Canada and the country's main financial centre?

Toronto

What are the main economical activities in Ontario?

Service/Manufacturing industries Producing large percentage of Canada's exports Vineyards, fruits and crops (Niagara region) Dairy, beef cattle, poultry, vegetable and grain crops

Who founded Ontario? Does it have any French-speaking population?

United Empire Loyalists Yes, it's the largest Francophone population outside of Quebec, proud history of preserving language and culture

Mention the five Great Lakes and which one is the largest freshwater lake

Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan (US) and Superior (largest)

What are the main resources of the Prairie Provinces? How is the weather in this region?

Energy resources and most fertile farmland in the world Mostly dry, cold winters and hot summers

What's the base of Manitoba's economy?

Agriculture, mining, hydro-electric power generation

What's the most populous city in Manitoba? What's the most famous street intersection in the Exchange District and in Canada? What's the name of the French Quarter?

Winnipeg Portage and Main St. Boniface (Western Canada's largest francophone community, 45k)

What other cultures can be found in Manitoba?

Ukranian - 14% origins Largest Aboriginal population of any province (15%)

Which province was known as the "breadbasket of the world" or the "wheat province"? Why?

Saskatchewan 40% of arable land in Canada, largest producer of grains and oilseeds

What are some resources of Saskatchewan?

World's richest deposits of uranium and potash (fertilizer) Oil and natural gas

Where is the home of the training academy of the RCMP? And which is the largest city in Saskatchewan, also the headquarters of mining industry and important educational, research and tech centre?

Regina Saskatoon

Which is the most populous Prairie province? Where did this province and Lake Louise (Rocky Mountains) got their name from?

Alberta Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (4th daughter of Queen Victoria)

How many national parks are in Alberta? When was Banff National Park established? Where are some of the richest deposits of prehistoric fossils and dinosaur finds?

5 1885 Badlands

What's Alberta's largest product? How does it impact Canada's reputation?

Oil and gas Oil sands in the north are major energy source Agriculture, mostly cattle ranches Making Canada one of the world's major beef producers

Which province has majestic mountains and is known as Canada's Pacific gateway? Which is the largest and busiest port of Canada, known as the gateway to Asia-Pacific? What is this province's climate and why?

British Columbia Vancouver Temperate climate, because of the warm airstreams from the Pacific Ocean

What's the population of British Columbia, and what's one of its geographical highlights?

Four million Canada's westernmost province

What are about half of all the goods produced in BC? What are other economical activities of this province?

Forestry products: lumber, newsprint, pulp and paper products (most valuable forestry industry in Canada) Mining, fishing and fruit orchards and wine industry of Okanagan Valley

Which province has the most extensive park system in Canada, and how many provincial parks does it have?

BC 600

What are the most spoken languages in BC after English?

Chinese and Punjabi

Where is the headquarters of the navy's Pacific fleet?

Victoria, BC

What's the extension of the Northern Territories compared to their population? What kind of mines and deposits can be found there?

One-third of Canada's land mass 100,000 people Gold, lead, copper, diamond and zinc mines Oil and gas deposits

How is the North referred to and why? What's the weather over there?

Land of the Midnight Sun Daylight can last up to 24hrs at the height of summer In winter, sun disappears, darkness for 3 months Long cold winters and short cool summers

What's much of the North made o and how does it modify the landscape? How do people earn a living?

Tundra, vast rocky Arctic plain No trees, soil is permanently frozen Hunting, fishing, trapping, Inuit art

Which province was visited by thousands of miners during the Gold Rush of 1890s, celebrated by Robert W. Service's poetry?

Yukon

What's a significant part of Yukon's economy? Which attractions opened in 1900 from Skagway (Alaska) to Whitehorse, an excursion across precipitous passes and bridges? What's the coldest temperature ever recorded in Yukon (and in Canada)?

Mining White Pass and Yukon Railway -63C

Which is the highest mountain in Canada and where is it located? In honour of who was it named?

Mount Logan Yukon Sir William Logan, world famous geologist born in Montreal (1798) to Scottish immigrant parents, founder of Geological Survey of Canada, one of Canada's greatest scientists.

How were the Northwest territories made up and when?

From Rupert's Land and the North Western Territory 1870

What's the population of Yellowknife, and how is it known as? What is the origin of more than half of the population?

20,000 Diamond capital of North America Aboriginal (Dene, Inuit and Metis)

What's the second-largest river system in North America (after the Mississippi) and what's the extension of the area it drains?

Mackenzie River 1.8 million square km

What does Nunavut mean in Inuktitut? When was it established and how?

Our land 1999 Eastern part of Northwest Territories, including former district of Keewatin

What was the old name of Iqaluit and why?

Frobisher Bay After the English explorer Martin Frobisher, explored uncharted Arctic for Queen Elizabeth I in 1576

What's the percentage of Inuit population in Nunavut? What's the third official language and first language in schools?

85% Inuktitut

What is special about Nunavut's 19-member Legislative Assembly?

They choose a Premier and Ministers by consensus

Who are the Canadian Rangers?

Part of the Canadian Forces Reserves (militia) Indigenous knowledge and experience, travel by snowmobile in winter and all-terrain vehicles in summer, from Resolute to the Magnetic North Pole, keep the flag flying in Canada's Arctic

Canada's Regions Flashcards

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