Nation Report: Canada

Jeffrey Phongsamran

Geography

• Canada’s territory combined makes it the worlds second largest country by land mass.

• The Provinces are Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ne Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewa.

• The territories are Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon.

Geography cont.

• Canada Spans the territory between the Pacific and Atlantic ocean.

• It occupies about 41% of North America.• To the North lies a vast rock base known as the Canadian

Shield• To the south lies the Appalachian Mountains and the Great

Lakes.

People

• Most of the people in Canada are ethnically British or French. • The largest occupied urban areas are in Quebec, Ontario, and

central Canada.• French and English are the official languages but English is

more widely spoken.

People cont.

• Canada is dominated by English Canada in terms of national identity.

• Canada has seen successive waves of immigration from Netherlands, Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, China, and Japan due to its legislated binationalism and biculturalism.

• Class symbolism in Canada is modest, mainly due to the rhetoric of identity that prices diversity and even humility.

Culture

• Canada is often symbolically connected with three key images: hockey, the beaver, and the maple leaf.

• Hockey carries the same symbolic weight that baseball does in America.

• The beavers special merit as a cultural symbol is its industriousness, triumph over the seasons, and the beaver is seen as humble, non-predatory, and diligent, values that form the fundamental core of Canadian self-identification.

Culture cont.

• The Maple Leaf has served as a symbol celebrating the nature and environment of what is Canada since the 18th century.

• The core values of the symbols are cooperation, industriousness, and patience (a kind of national politeness).

• The Canadian Identity is something communal rather than individualistic.

History

• The name Canada is from the Iroquoian word kanata, which means village.

• Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces.• France held the North American fur trade monopoly in 1604.• The first permanent settlement and capital of New France

was Quebec City.

History cont.

• The two European colonial powers that shaped Canada were France and Great Britain.

• After the seven year war the French ceded a majority of their land the British, however the British guaranteed the right of the Canadians practice of the Catholic faith and use of French civil law.

• In 1960, the Quiet Revolution took place in Quebec, overthrowing the old establishment and modernized the economy and society.

Source

• http://www.canadianculture.com/culture.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Canada

• http://www.mapsofworld.com/country-profile/canada1.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada• http://www.everyculture.com/Bo-Co/Canada.

html