Atlantic Canada
Which provinces and territories are part of Atlantic Canada?
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island
Which provinces and territories are part of Central Canada?
Ontario and Quebec.
Which provinces and territories are part of the Prairie Provinces?
The provinces include Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
How much of Canada's total landmass do the Northern Territories take up?
Almost 40%! Wow!
Which provinces and territories make up the West Coast Pacific region of Canada?
Just the province of British Columbia.
Which of the four Atlantic Provinces has the highest population, and what is the population?
Nova Scotia is the most populated with the population of 940,000.
Which province or territory does most Canadians live in? Hint: 2 in 5 Canadians live in this place, and 40% of all Canadians live in this place.
Ontario!!!!!!!
What do the lands of the Prairie Provinces look like? What is prairie land good for?
These provinces are mostly covered by grasslands, plains, and lowlands, but they also have mountains, lakes.
Prairie land is excellent for farming.
Which provinces and territories make up the Northern Territories region?
Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Nunavut.
Where do most people in BC live?
3.35 million out of the 5 million people living in BC live on the coastline, with most of the population living on the southern coastline.
Which province is officially bilingual? What does bilingual mean?
New Brunswick is the only province that is bilingual officially. This means they recognize that French and English are equal languages.
Which city is mentioned to be a multicultural city with the highest population of visible minorities?
What does visible minority mean?
Toronto. A visible minority means someone who is now white and non-Indigenous.
Why are the prairies called Canada’s Breadbasket?
The prairies are called Canada's Breadbasket because wheat is grown in massive amounts and supplied to other provinces and countries around the world.
Altogether, how much is the population of all three territories?
These territories together have a population of only 123,000.
Why do most people of BC live where they do?
Most people of BC live on the southern coastline because the climate is warmer in the southern region and people enjoy living near the Pacific Ocean.
Who are the people that live in Nova Scotia? List the top 5 ethnicities and where they originate from.
Scottish, English, Irish, French, and Indigenous.
What was Quebec called before it became a province? Where were the settlers from? What is Quebec's official language? How many can speak the official language fluently in Quebec?
It was called New France. The colony of settlers were from New France. The official language of Quebec is France and 95% of Quebec's people speak French fluently.
What is celebrated at the Calgary stampede every year?
Cowboy culture and how pioneers in this region survived years ago.
Why do so little people live in this region?
These regions are not heavily populated because the land is difficult to live on. It is a tundra, which is barren land that grows very little. Without plants, agriculture cannot supply a large population the food they need to survive. In order to survive in these northern territories, you need to understand how to hunt and stay warm.
Which ethnic group has the most population in BC and why is that so?
British Columbia has the most concentrated population of Chinese in Canada. Many Chinese immigrants moved to British Columbia during the Gold Rush. They also moved there to work on the railroad that connected B.C. to Atlantic Canada.
Why do so many Francophones live in the Atlantic Provinces? What were they called before Canada was a country?
In the early 1600s, immigrants from France landed in these provinces and named them Acadia.
The people that lived in Acadia were called Acadians.
How is French protected in Quebec?
The people of Quebec love their French culture and language.
They have laws that ensure French is spoken as the first language. For example, Bill 101 states that French must be the language written on all signs and if English is written, it must be smaller than the French writing.
Name the prairie provinces in the order of largest to smallest population.
What are the top three ethnic groups for each of the prairie provinces?
Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan.
ALBERTA: English, German, Scottish
MANITOBA: English, Indigenous, German
SASKATCHEWAN: German, English, Scottish
Why does the Yukon have a higher percentage of Europeans than the other territories?
Which ethnic group is Nunavut mainly made up of? How do they live?
Many of these Europeans went to the Yukon in search of gold. The Gold Rush era in the Yukon was between 1890 – 1899. The Klondike Gold Rush brought over 100,000 people to the Yukon.
Almost everyone is Inuit in Nunavut. The Inuit are experts at surviving in the Arctic conditions. They hunt and trap for food and use fur clothing to stay warm.
What would you likely see if you visited BC? Who built these artifacts and what do they mean?
If you travel to British Columbia, you will likely see totem poles throughout the land. These totem poles were built by coastal First Nations, including the Haida. They were built to represent and commemorate ancestry, histories, people, or events.