Author: Muriel Schmidt

Some countries like Canada, some regions in China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, United states etc. are lies in the temperate zone. Is Canada a temperate climate zone? The northern part of Canada is extremely cold, with summer lasting less than two months, but almost all Canadians live near the southern border where the weather […]

The Rocky Mountains of North America, or the Rockies, stretch from northern Alberta and British Columbia in Canada southward to New Mexico in the United States, a distance of some 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometres). In places the system is 300 or more miles wide. Which mountain ranges are shared by the U.S. and Canada? The […]

Accordingly, King Louis XIV ordered the dispatch of 1,000 French regulars to Canada on 27 March 1665. Who brought French to Canada? In 1534, French explorer Jacques Cartier ventured across the Atlantic in search of a more direct route to Asia. He reached the shores of Newfoundland and what are now Canada’s Maritime Provinces, and […]

In 1758, the tide turned when the British captured Louisbourg, followed by Quebec City in 1759 and Montreal in 1760. With the Treaty of Paris of 1763, France formally ceded Canada to the British. The Seven Years’ War therefore laid the bicultural foundations of modern Canada. Did the UK conquer Canada? Great Britain began acquiring […]

The term Arctic peoples in Canada generally refers to the Inuit population, descendants of the Thule people, who lived in the Arctic from 400 to 1,000 years ago. The Inuit refer to their homeland as Inuit Nunangat. In 2011, there were nearly 60,000 Inuit in Canada, 73 per cent of whom lived in Inuit Nunangat. […]

Average daytime and nighttime temperatures Canada is a large country whose northern regions lie in the cold polar zone of the Arctic. Temperatures are well below freezing all year round. Is Canada a temperate climate? Canada has a temperate climate and four very distinctive seasons. Generally, the seasons are: spring – March, April, May, summer […]

French Canadians form considerable minorities in every other province except British Columbia. French is the native tongue of three out of every ten Canadians. What parts of Canada don’t speak French? There is only one bilingual province in Canada (New Brunswick) and one monolingual province whose official language is French: Québec. The rest of the […]

The Atlantic Ocean is vital to Canada’s economy. Over 55,000 jobs are associated with the ocean, in industries such as fishing, aquaculture, tourism and oil and gas. Why is the ocean important to Canada? The coastal ecosystems that surround our oceans are also important as they support a wide diversity of marine and terrestrial species. […]

From Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Experts generally recommend purchasing life insurance coverage worth 7 to 10 times your annual salary in order to protect your family. How do you determine how much life insurance you need? One of the simplest ways to get a rough idea of how much life insurance to buy is […]

Central Canada The Laurentides Range, one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world, sit across the U.S. border to the south. What parts of Canada have mountains? Most mountain peaks of Canada lie in the west, specifically in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon. Mountains can be found all over British Columbia while those […]