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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Contents 1 Parent topics 2 Subtopics 2.1 Provinces 2.2 Territories 2.3 Geological features 2.4 Major cities 2.5 History 2.6 Culture 3 Other related topics

Parent topics

• United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. [e]
• North America [r]: The third largest continent; area 24,709,000 km² ; pop. 523,736,000 (est. July 2007) [e]

Subtopics

Provinces

• British Columbia [r]: The westernmost province of Canada, located on the Pacific coast; pop. 3,933,000 (1996) makes it the third most populous of Canada's provinces. [e]
• Alberta [r]: One of the western prairie provinces of Canada, rich in oil and with a population of about 3.5 million (2007 estimate). [e]
• Saskatchewan [r]: An Prairie province in central Canada with a population of about 994,000. [e]
• Manitoba [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ontario [r]: A province in eastern Canada, the second largest in area and with approximately 12,000,000 people (2006 census) the most populous. [e]
• Quebec [r]: A province in eastern Canada, mostly French speaking and with a population of about 7 million. [e]
• New Brunswick [r]: a Maritime province on the east coast of Canada. [e]
• Nova Scotia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Prince Edward Island [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Newfoundland and Labrador [r]: Province in Eastern Canada. [e]

Territories

• Yukon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Northwest Territories [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nunavut [r]: One of Canada's three Northern Territories. [e]

Geological features

• Canadian shield [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bay of Fundy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hudson Bay [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Laurentian Mountains [r]: A greatly eroded mountain range which forms the Quebec portion of the Canadian shield; one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. [e]
• Saint Lawrence River [r]: A large river in North America, flowing northwards through the provinces of Ontario and Quebec and forming the primary drainage of the Great Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean. [e]
• Great Lakes [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Canadian Prairies [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Maritimes [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Atlantic Canada [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Canadian Rockies [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Canadian Arctic Archipelago [r]: A large archipelago. [e]
• Hochelaga Archipelago [r]: A freshwater archipelago at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, which includes the island of Montreal. [e]
• Thousand Islands [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Athabasca Oil Sands [r]: Add brief definition or description

Major cities

• Toronto [r]: (population 5,304,100) the largest city in Canada, capital of the province of Ontario. [e]
• Montreal [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vancouver [r]: City in Canada located on the Pacific coast, in the province of British Columbia; Population 611,869. [e]
• Edmonton [r]: Capital and second largest city of the Canadian province of Alberta. [e]
• Calgary [r]: Third largest city in Canada, in the Foothills region of Alberta, just east of the Rocky Mountains. [e]
• Winnipeg [r]: The capital and largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada. [e]
• Ottawa [r]: Capital city of Canada, population 812,129. [e]
• Quebec City [r]: (metropolitan area population 715,515)The capital of the province of Quebec, Canada. [e]
• Halifax, Nova Scotia [r]: Add brief definition or description

History

• Responsible Government [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rebellion of 1837 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lord Durham's Report [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Act of Union (1840) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• British North America Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Red River Rebellion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Canadian Pacific Railway [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Conscription Crisis of 1917 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Quiet Revolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
• October Crisis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Constitution Act (1982) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms [r]: Add brief definition or description

Culture

• French in Canada [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Canadian Football League [r]: A major, professional Canadian sports league founded in 1958 whose rules are roughly similar to, but differ in some respects from (American) football rules. [e]
• Curling [r]: A game, invented in Scotland, which involves two teams of four players who slide a heavy stone towards a target at the opposite end of a long, narrow sheet of ice. [e]
• Ice hockey [r]: A game, played on ice, which consists of two teams of six players, each attempting to drive a small hard rubber disc called a puck into their opponent's goal net. [e]
• Canadian sports [r]: Sports with significant popularity in Canada. [e]