People pt. 1
first modern explorer to reach the North American mainland
John Cabot
"Apostle of Nova Scotia"
Henry Alline
Canada's longest river
Mackenzie River
"Gateway to the West"
Winnipeg
gold rush of 1897
explorer who opened trade between the French and the Indians
Jacques Cartier
explorer who helped establish Quebec
Samuel de Champlain
Canada's highest peak
Mt. Logan
"Canada's Gateway to the Pacific"
Vancouver
Canada's world-leading exports in ...
wheat
one of the first pioneer missionaries to Manitoba, Canada
James Evans
explorer who discovered the world's largest bay
Henry Hudson
the world's largest inland seaway
St. Lawrence Seaway
one of the world's largest inland ports
Montreal
Canada's famous police force
Mounties (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
two Canadian researchers who discovered a treatment for diabetes
Frederick Banting and Charles Best
Canadian missionary to China who later wrote books
Isobel Kuhn
only public highway north of the Arctic Circle open year-round
Dempster Highway
largest city in Canada
Toronto
Three important facts about Canada's government
1. Constitutional Monarchy
2. Leader of the nation- prime minister
3. Canada has a Parliament similar to the USA
4. Another leader of Canada- governor general, who is the representative of the British monarch
British explorers who mapped Canada's Pacific coast
Captain Cook and Captain Vancouver
first modern explorer to discover the New World
Christopher Columbus
water route that supposedly flowed through North America to Asia
Northwest Passage
capital of Newfoundland and Labrador
St. John's
Give three important facts about the Great Lakes
1. largest group of freshwater lakes in the world
2. contain 1/5 of the world's fresh water
3. Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world
4. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that does not touch Canada