Презентация на тему English-speaking countries. Canada

northern portion of North America, sharing land borders with

the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean. By total area (including its waters), Canada is the second largest country in the world—after Russia—and largest on the continent. By land area, it ranks second.

The population density, 3.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (9.1/sq mi), is among the lowest in the world

lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada

– United States border. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth.

people have resided on their lands since the
beginning of

time, while archaeological studies support
a human presence in the northern Yukon from 26,500
years ago, and in southern Ontario from 9,500 years ago.
Europeans first arrived when the Vikings settled briefly at
L'Anse aux Meadows around AD 1000; following the
failure of that colony, there was no further attempt at North
American exploration until 1497, when John Cabot
explored Canada's Atlantic coast for England, followed by
Jacques Cartier in 1534 for France.

a St. Lawrence Iroquoian word, kanata, meaning "village" or

"settlement". In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier towards the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used the word Canada to refer not only to that particular village, but also the entire area subject to Donnacona (the chief at Stadacona); by 1545, European books and maps had begun referring to this region as Canada.

1610 and colonized the Thirteen Colonies to the south.

A series of four Intercolonial Wars erupted between 1689 and 1763. Mainland Nova Scotia came under British rule with the Treaty of Utrecht (1713); the Treaty of Paris (1763) ceded Canada and most of New France to Britain following the Seven Years' War.

Canadian Flag

(Latin) ("Loyal she began, loyal she remains")

It cost
more than 3 million
Dollars to build it