2. Canada
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Name: Canada
Capital: Ottawa
Largest city: Toronto
Athem: “O Canada”
Official languges: English and French
Area: 9,984,670 km2 (2nd after Russia)
Population: 37,59 million, half of them
living in Ontario and Quebec.
Flag:
The National Flag of Canada,
also known as the Maple
Leaf, is a red flag with a
white square in its centre
and a red maple leaf.
3. Geography and location:
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Canada is divided into 10 provinces.
A province is a political boundary that
divides Canada into different regions.
Provinces are equivalent to USA states.
Canada stretches from the Pacific
Ocean on the west, to the
Atlantic Ocean on the east.
Northern Canada reaches into
the Arctic Circle, while southern
Canada stretches below the
northern points of the U.S.A.
4. Ten provinces and three territories…
• The Atlantic Region - Newfoundland
and Labrador, Prince Edward Island,
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
• Central Canada - Quebec, Ontario
• The Prairie Provinces –
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta
• The West Coast - British Columbia
• The North – Nunavut,
Northwest Territories, Yukon
Territory
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5. Political system
• In Canada, there are 3 levels of government. Each level
of government has different responsibilities.
• Federal government (the Government of Canada) -
Responsible for things that affect the whole country, such
as citizenship and immigration, national defence and
trade with other countries.
• Provincial and territorial governments (for example, the
Province of Ontario) - Responsible for things such as
education, health care and highways.
• Municipal (local) governments (cities, towns, and
villages in Ontario) - Responsible for firefighting, city
streets and other local matters. If there is no local
government, the province provides services.
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6. Federal Government:
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• Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, is Canada's
formal head of state. The Governor
General represents the Queen in Canada and carries
out the duties of head of state.
• The House of Commons makes Canada's laws.
Canadians elect representatives to the House of
Commons. These representatives are called Members
of Parliament (MPs) and usually belong to a political
party. The political party that has the largest number
of MPs forms the government, and its leader
becomes prime minister.
• The prime minister is the head of government in
Canada. The Prime Minister chooses MPs to serve as
ministers in the cabinet. There are ministers for
citizenship and immigration, justice and other
subjects. The cabinet makes important decisions
about government policy.
• The Senate reviews laws that are proposed by the
House of Commons. Senators come from across
Canada. The prime minister chooses the senators.
8. Canada´s history
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• Native Americans lived in Canada for
thousands of years. In the early
1600s, colonists from Britain and
France began to settle in eastern
Canada, along the St. Lawrence River.
Canada proved to be an excellent
spot for trapping and trading of furs.
In the 1800s, settlers began to push
west. Most of the native Americans
were displaced by the Europeans.
9. Environment:
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• Canada has a very large and
diverse range of geographic
features. Much of Canada is still
wilderness, cover by forests. The
Rocky Mountains cover a major
part of western Canada.
Canada has a lot of lakes and
rivers that makes it even more
beautiful. It also has many caves,
many rare animals and species
protection areas.
10. Environment:Natural resources
Canada’s Top 10 Natural Resources
1. Water
2. Oil
3. Forests
4. Precious Metals (gold, silver, copper)
5. Coal
6. Fish
7. Uranium
8. Diamonds
9. Natural gas
10. Rivers (For generating hydroelectricity)
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11. Environment: Animals
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• Currently, Canada has more than 7100 species of plants
and animals. Some of these animals are: moose, deer,
bison, beaver, raccoon, opossum, groundhog, prairie dogs,
rabbits, squirrels, skunks, porcupines, bobcat, mountain
lion, fox, coyotes, wolf. But the most important are:
Beaver Moose Bear
WordPower!
Moose alce Racoon mapache Opossum zarigüeya Groundhog
marmota Skunks mofeta Bobcat lince
13. Environment: Niagara Falls
• Niagara Falls is a set of massive
waterfalls located on the Niagara River
in eastern North America, on the border
between Canada and the United States.
Niagara Falls is the largest waterfall in
the world by volume. The Canada's
highest waterfall is Della Falls which is
440 metres high.
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14. Sports
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• Canada's official national sports are
hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the
summer. Hockey is the sport most
played by Canadians, with 1.65 million
participants. Other popular spectator
sports include curling and football, that
is played professionally in the Canadian
Football League (CFL).
• Canada has hosted several high-profile
international sporting events, including
the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal,
the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary,
and the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Canada was the host nation for the
2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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The Toronto Raptors basketball
team captured their first NBA in 2019,
defeating Golden State 114-110 to become
the first league champions from outside the
US by dethroning the defending title
holders.
16. Languages
• French and English have been given official
status by the federal government of
Canada. All public services, legislative
decisions, and court proceedings are held in
both French and English. Approximately
56.9% of the population of Canada speaks
English as a native language, while 21.3%
speak French as a first language.
Throughout the provinces, English is the
most commonly used language at home.
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Quebec and Nunavut are the exceptions to this
statistic. In Quebec, nearly 80% of the
population uses French at home, and in
Nunavut nearly 53% of the population uses an
indigenous language at home…
17. Quebec
• Quebec is the largest Canadian province in area (though the
territory of Nunavut is larger) and the second largest in
population, after Ontario. Quebec is a mainly French-
speaking society, and the defense of its language and
culture colours all politics in the province (in French, the
province's name is spelled Québec).
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18. Canada´s famous people…
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Brian Adams (singer)
Alexander Graham Bell (invented the telephone)
James Cameron (director of "True Lies" & "Titanic")
Jim Carrey (actor)
Celine Dion (singer)
Keanu Reeves (actor)
Avril Lavigne (singer)
Nelly Furtado (singer)
Justin Bieber (singer)
Ryan Gosling (actor)
Ryan Reynolds(actor)
Shawn Mendes (singer)
20. Food: Maple syrup
• Maple syrup is a syrup usually made from
the sap (savia) of sugar maple, red maple, or
black maple trees. In cold climates, these
trees store starch (almidón) in their trunks
and roots before winter; the starch is then
converted to sugar that rises in the sap in
late winter and early spring. Maple trees are
tapped by drilling holes into their trunks and
collecting the exuded sap, which is
processed by heating to evaporate much of
the water, leaving the concentrated syrup.
Most trees produce 20 to 60 litres of sap per
season.
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Maple syrup was first made and used by the
indigenous peoples of North America, and the
practice was adopted by European settlers,
who gradually refined production methods.
21. My school in Ottawa
Glebe Collegiate Spanish class
Indigenous Studies Spanish class
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25. Glebe sports offer…
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FALL SPORTS
Jr. Boys Football • Sr. Boys Football • Sr. Girls Basketball • Jr. Girls Basketball
Sr. Boys Volleyball • Jr. Boys Soccer • Sr. Boys Soccer • Girls Field Hockey
Boys Rugby 7s • Girls Rugby 7s • Boys Golf • Girls Golf • Cross Country
Tennis • Swimming • Ultimate Frisbee • Unified Team
WINTER SPORTS
Boys Hockey • Girls Hockey • Jr. Girls Volleyball • Sr. Girls Volleyball
Jr. Boys Volleyball • Jr. Boys Basketball • Sr. Boys Basketball • Girls Curling
Boys Curling • Badminton • Nordic Skiing • Unified Team
SPRING SPORTS
Jr. Girls Soccer • Sr. Girls Soccer • Jr. Girls Rugby • Sr.
Girls Rugby
Jr. Boys Rugby • Sr. Boys Rugby • Girls Touch Football
• Girls Softball
Boys Baseball • Track And Field • Ringette • Lacrosse
• Rowing
Ultimate Frisbee • Unified Team
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I AM A CANADIAN
By Duke Redbird
I’m a lobster fisherman in
Newfoundland
I’m a clambake in P.E.I.
I’m a picnic, I’m a banquet
I’m mother’s homemade pie
I’m a few drafts in a Legion hall in
Fredericton
I’m a kite-flyer in Moncton
I’m a nap on the porch after a hard
day’s
work is done
I’m a snowball fight in Truro, Nova
Scotia
I’m small kids playing jacks and skipping
rope
I’m a mother who lost a son in the last
Great
War
And I’m a bride with a brand new ring
And a chest of hope
I’m an Easterner
I’m a Westerner
I’m from the North
And I’m from the South
I’ve swam in two big oceans
And I’ve loved them both.
I'm a clown in Quebec during carnival
I'm a mass in the cathedral of St. Paul
I'm a hockey game in the forum
I'm Rocket Richard and Jean Beliveau
I'm a coach for little league Expos
I'm a babysitter for sleep defying
rascals
I'm a canoe trip down the Ottawa
I'm a holiday on the Trent
I'm a mortgage, I'm a loan
I’m last week’s unpaid rent
I’m Yorkville after dark
I’m a walk in the park
I’m a Winnipeg gold-eye
I’m a hand-made trout fly
I’m a wheat-field and a sunset
Under a prairie-sky
I’m Sir John A. MacDonald
I’m Alexander Graham Bell
I’m a pow-wow dancer
And I’m Louis Riel
I’m the Calgary Stampede
I’m a feathered Sarcee
I’m Edmonton at night
I’m a bar-room fight
I’m a rigger, I’m a cat
I’m a ten-gallon hat
And an unnamed mountain in the
interior of
B.C.
I’m a maple tree and a totem pole
I’m sunshine showers
And fresh-cut flowers
I’m a ferry boat ride to the Island
I’m the Yukon
I’m the Northwest Territories
I’m the Arctic Ocean and the Beaufort
Sea
I’m the Prairies, I’m the Great Lakes
I’m the Rockies, I’m the Laurentians
I am French
I am English
And I'm Métis
But more than this
Above all this
I am Canadian and proud
