 1.

Canada spans 9,984,670 sq km and

compries 6 times zones
 2.Canada is home to the longest street in
the world
 3.While were talking “longest”, here’s
another record
 4.A bear cub narmed winniped was
exported from canada to the London zoo
in 1915
 5.The canadian motto, A mari Usque and
Mare , means “from the sea”
 HOLIDAY: Day observed,observance
 LABOUR DAY: First Monday of september
 THANKSGIVING: Second Monday in
october, nationwide except NB,NS,PE,NL
 REMEMBRANCE: November 11,
Nationwide except on ON,QC,NS,NL
 CHRISTMAS DAY:December 25 ,
Nationwide
1.POUTIN
2.CANADIAN BACON
3.CAESAR
4.BEAVERTAILS
5.”CANADIAN PIZZA”
6.BUTTER TARTS
 The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indiansthousands of years ago to the
present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day Canada were
inhabited for millennia by Indigenous peoples, with distinct trade networks, spiritual beliefs, and styles
of social organization. Some of these older civilizations had long faded by the time of the
first European arrivals and have been discovered through archaeological investigations.
 Starting in the late 15th century, French and British expeditions explored, colonized, and fought over
various places within North America in what constitutes present-day Canada. The colony of New
France was claimed in 1534 with permanent settlements beginning in 1608. France ceded nearly all its
North American possessions to the United Kingdom in 1763 after the French defeat in the Seven Years'
War. The now British Province of Quebec was divided into Upper and Lower Canada in 1791
and reunified in 1841. In 1867, the Province of Canada was joined with two other British colonies
of New Brunswick and Nova Scotiathrough Confederation, forming a self-governing entity named
Canada. The new dominion expanded by incorporating other parts of British North America, finishing
with Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949.
 Although responsible government had existed in Canada since 1848, Britain continued to set its foreign
and defence policies until the end of the First World War. The passing of the Statute of Westminster in
1931 recognized that Canada had become co-equal with the United Kingdom. After
the Constitution was patriated in 1982, the final vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament
were removed. Canada currently consists of ten provinces and three territories and is a parliamentary
democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state.
 Over centuries, elements of Indigenous, French, British and more recent immigrant customs have
combined to form a Canadian culture that has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic,
geographic and economic neighbour, the United States. Since the conclusion of the Second World
War, Canadians have supported multi-lateralism abroad and socioeconomic development
domestically.
 4 August 1914 :Canada at war
 22 August 1914: war meassures act
 22 April 1915: Battle of second years
 1 July 1916: Beaumont Hame
 9 to 12 April 1917: Battle of vimmy ridge
 20 September 1917 wartime elections act
 26 Octoberto 10 November 1917 : battle of
passchendaete
 17 December 1917 federal election
 8 August to 11 November 1918: The
hundred days
 11 November 1918 Armistice
 Sports in Canada consist of a wide variety of games. The most common sports are ice
hockey, lacrosse, gridiron football soccer, basketball, curling and baseball, with ice
hockey and lacrosse being the official winter and summer sports, respectively.
 Ice hockey, referred to as simply "hockey", is Canada's most prevalent winter sport, its
most popular spectator sport, and its most successful sport in international competition.
Lacrosse, a sport with Indigenous origins, is Canada's oldest sport. Canadian football is
Canada's second most popular spectator sport, being the most popular in the prairie
provinces.[1] The Canadian Football League's annual championship, the Grey Cup, is
one of the country's largest annual sports events.[2] While other sports have a larger
spectator base, Association football, known in Canada as soccer in both English and
French, has the most registered players of any team sport in Canada.[3] Professional
teams exist in many cities in Canada. Statistics Canada[4]reports that the top ten sports
that Canadians participate in are golf, ice hockey, swimming, soccer, basketball,
baseball, volleyball, skiing (downhill and alpine), cycling and tennis.[5]
 As a country with a generally cool climate, Canada has enjoyed greater success at
the Winter Olympics than at the Summer Olympics, although significant regional
variations in climate allow for a wide variety of both team and individual sports.
Major multi-sport events in Canada include the 1988 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and
the 1976 Summer Olympics. Great achievements in Canadian sports are recognized
by Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, while the Lou Marsh Trophy is awarded annually to
Canada's top athlete by a panel of journalists. There are numerous other Sports Halls of
Fames in Canada.
 The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social
elements that are representative of Canada and Canadians. Throughout Canada's history, its culture
has been influenced by European culture and traditions, especially British and French, and by its
own indigenous cultures.[1] Over time, elements of the cultures of Canada's immigrant populations
have become incorporated to form a Canadian cultural mosaic.[1][2] The population has also been
influenced by American culture because of a shared language, proximity, television and migration
between the two countries.[3][4]
 Canada is often characterized as being "very progressive, diverse,
and multicultural".[5] Canada's federal government has often been described as the instigator of
multicultural ideology because of its public emphasis on the social importance of
immigration.[6] Canada's culture draws from its broad range of constituent nationalities, and policies
that promote a just society are constitutionally protected.[7]Canadian Government policies—such
as publicly funded health care; higher and more progressive taxation; outlawing capital punishment;
strong efforts to eliminate poverty; an emphasis on cultural diversity; strict gun control; the legalization
of same-sex marriage and cannabis —are social indicators of the country's political and cultural
values.[8]Canadians identify with the country's institutions of health care, military peacekeeping,
the National park system and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[9][10]
 The Canadian government has influenced culture with programs, laws and institutions. It has created
crown corporations to promote Canadian culture through media, such as the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation(CBC) and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and promotes many events which it
considers to promote Canadian traditions. It has also tried to protect Canadian culture by setting legal
minimums on Canadian content in many media using bodies like the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).[11]
 The geography of Canada describes the geographic features of Canada, the world's
second largest country in total area.
 Situated in northern North America (constituting 41% of the continent's area), Canada
spans a vast, diverse territory between the North Pacific Ocean to the west and
the North Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Arctic Oceanto the north (hence the
country's motto "From sea to sea"), with the United States to the south (contiguous
United States) and northwest (Alaska). Greenland is to the northeast; off the southern
coast of Newfoundland lies Saint Pierre and Miquelon, an overseas collectivity of
France. Since 1925, Canada has claimed the portion of the Arctic between 60°W and
141°W longitude to the North Pole; however, this claim is contested.[1] While
the magnetic North Polelies within the Canadian Arctic territorial claim as of 2011,
recent measurements indicate it is moving towards Siberia.[2]
 Covering 9,984,670 km2 or 3,855,100 sq mi (land: 9,093,507 km2 or 3,511,023 sq mi;
freshwater: 891,163 km2 or 344,080 sq mi), Canada is slightly less than three-fifths as large
as Russia and slightly smaller than Europe. In total area, Canada is slightly larger than
both the U.S. and China; however, Canada ranks fourth in land area (i.e. total area
minus the area of lakes and rivers)—China is 9,326,410 km2 (3,600,950 sq mi) and the U.S.
is 9,161,923 km2 (3,537,438 sq mi).[3]
 The population of Canada, 35,151,728 as of May 10, 2016, is concentrated in the south
close to its border with the contiguous U.S.; with a population density of 3.5 people per
square kilometre (9.1/sq mi), it is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the
world. The northernmost settlement in Canada—and in the world—is Canadian Forces
Station (CFS) Alert (just north of Alert, Nunavut) on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island at
82°30′N 62°19′W, just 834 kilometres (518 mi) from the North Pole.