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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]: (population 939,531) A Maritime province on the east coast of Canada. [e]
- Prince Edward Island [r]: (population 140,402) A Maritime province and island, located in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on the east coast of Canada. [e]
- 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]: A bay on the Gulf of Maine's northeast end, mostly between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia but touching upon Maine. [e]
- Hudson Bay [r]: A large (1.23 million km²) body of water in northeastern Canada on the Arctic Ocean. [e]
- 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]: There are five large connected Lakes in Eastern North America. [e]
- 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]: An archipelago of islands in the Saint Lawrence River, stretching for approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) downstream from Kingston, Ontario. [e]
- Athabasca Oil Sands [r]: A large deposit of oil-rich bitumen (petroleum asphalt) located in northern Alberta, Canada. [e]
Major cities
- Toronto [r]: (population 5,304,100) the largest city in Canada, capital of the province of Ontario. [e]
- Montreal [r]: The second most populous city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec [e]
- 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
Language
- Canadian English [r]: Any of the dialects of English, standard or not, that are used in Canada. [e]
- French in Canada [r]: The linguistic heritage resulting from French colonization of parts of Canada. [e]
Music
- The Birthday Massacre [r]: A rock band formed in Toronto in 1999, originally called Imagica. [e]
- Rush [r]: Canadian rock band originally formed in August 1968, in Toronto, Ontario, composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. [e]
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]
