Resource
Cordillera what is one main resource?
Salmon
Cordillera- Name one unique Indigenous group
Tingguian
Arctic - Historical Event
Klondike Goldrush
- In August, 1896, Skookum Jim and his family found gold near the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory.
Their discovery sparked one of the most frantic gold rushes in history.
Cordillera - What is the land form and name one unique landform
The Western Cordillera includes plateaus, valleys and plains as well as rugged mountains.
- Coast and Rocky Mountains
- Dela Falls : Della Falls is a waterfall located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. With a total height of 440 m, it ranks as the 16th tallest confirmed waterfall in Canada and the second tallest on Vancouver Island.
Arctic- name one cultural fact or tourist spot
- Barbeau Peak is a mountain in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada
- Barbeau Peak is the highest mountain within the British Empire Range as well as the Arctic Cordillera, as well as in all of eastern North America.
Wheat
Interior Plains- Name one unique Indigenous group
Kini
Atlantic- Historical event
The 1917 Halifax Explosion
- known as the biggest human-made explosion.
The event was also the largest mass-blinding in Canadian history and it played a crucial role in the founding of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB).
Interior Plains- What is the land form and name one unique landform
Some of the landforms found in the region are hills, cliffs, low mountains, forests, wide river valleys, sand dunes and prairie grass.
The landscape of the Interior Plains region can be described as mainly flat with prairie grasslands.
Cordillera- name one cultural fact or tourist spot
Totem poles
Canadian Shield- One resource?
Minerals
Canadian Sheild- Name one unique Indigenous group
Anishinaabe
Altantic Historical Event
Viola Desmond (1914-1965)
An African-Canadian businesswoman, she confronted the racism that Black Nova Scotians routinely faced by refusing to sit in a segregated space in a public theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946
Canadian Shield - What is the land form and name one unique landform
-Landforms in the Canadian Shield include both flat areas and rocky hills.
There are forests, tundra, and lowlands. More than one quarter of the Canadian Shield's surface is covered by water.
The Canadian Shield has thousands of lakes, rivers, streams, and marshes.
- Niagara Falls
Interior Plains- name one cultural fact or tourist spot
Banff
Great Lakes/ St Lawrence Low lands- one resource
Fish
Great Lakes/ St Lawrence low lands- Name one unique Indigenous group
Iroquois
Great Lakes/ St Lawerence Lowlands - Historical event
-Grosse Île is an island, 46 km downstream from Quebec City.
It has also been known as Île de Grâce and Quarantine Island.
From 1832 to 1937, it was used as a quarantine station for the port of Quebec City.
Over this century of activity, more than 4 million immigrants passed through this station.
- Lawrence Valley near Québec disintegrated 13,000 years ago and the sea flooded the region.
- Forming a body of water known as the Champlain Sea. From 13,000 to 10,000 years ago the St. Lawrence Lowland rose rapidly (as much as 20 m per century) in response to the disappearance of the ice mass
Great Lakes/ St Lawrence Low lands- what is the land forms and name one unique landform
-The landforms of the Great Lake – St. Lawrence Lowlands, with its rolling hills and slopes, were carved by glacial streams.
- Lake Superior - biggest of the great lakes
Canadian Shield -name one cultural fact or tourist spot
CN Tower
Atlantic- One resource?
Fresh Seafood / Potatoes
Arctic- Name one unique Indigenous group
Inuit
Canadian Shield - Historical Event
Fur trade, europeans and indigenous traded fur pelts for goods
Atlantic - what is the land form and name one unique landform
-The Atlantic provinces are an extension of the Appalachians, an ancient mountain range.
Much of the region has low, rugged hills and plateaus, and a deeply indented coastline.
- coastline
Great Lakes/ St Lawrence lowlands -name one cultural fact or tourist spot
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands is the smallest land region yet it contains about one half of Canada's population.
- It is a rich industrial area where about 70% of Canada's manufactured goods are made.