Author: Muriel Schmidt

Top Ten Western Canada Banff National Park. Lake Louise. Yoho National Park. Glacier & Mount Revelstoke National Parks. Vancouver. Vancouver Island & Victoria. The Inside Passage. Prince Rupert, Skeena Valley, & Queen Charlotte Islands. Where should I go on the west coast of Canada? 10 essential pit stops on a western Canada road trip Granville […]

Now, thanks to the newly opened Inuvik-to-Tuktoyaktuk Highway, Tuktoyaktuk can be reached year-round by vehicles and is officially Canada’s first highway to the Arctic. What is this? However, just because there’s a year-round road doesn’t mean Tuktoyaktuk will no longer be off-the-beaten-path. Can you drive to the Canadian Arctic? Canada’s only all-season public road to […]

Hydroelectricity. Hydroelectricity is by far the most important form of renewable energy produced in Canada. Wind and bioenergy also make an important contribution to Canada’s energy mix. What is Canada’s #1 energy source? hydro sourcesMore than half of the electricity in Canada (60%) is generated from hydro sources. The remainder is produced from a variety […]

Duration of the sunset Ottawa lies on the 45th degree of northern latitude and is therefore very far away from the equator. While a sunset near the equator lasts only about 20 minutes, in Canada, this period averages 39 minutes. How long does a sunset usually last? Duration of the sunset While a sunset near […]

Canada has six major drainage basins: the Arctic, Pacific, Western Hudson Bay and Mississippi, South and East Hudson Bay, Great Lakes–St Lawrence and Atlantic. Where is Canada Basin? the Arctic OceanThe Canada Basin is a deep oceanic basin within the Arctic Ocean. It is part of the Amerasian Basin and lies off the coast of […]

It was Mackenzie’s passion to reach the Pacific Ocean overland. In the summer of 1789 he set out, hoping to discover a passage westward by way of a river, described to him by the Indians, which flowed out of Great Slave Lake. After 3 weeks exploring the north shore of the lake, they found the […]

Ontario. Canada West then became Ontario and Canada East became Quebec. What is Canada West now called? OntarioCanada West, also called Upper Canada, in Canadian history, the region in Canada now known as Ontario. When did Upper Canada become Canada West? In 1841, Britain combined the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada into a single […]

Mont Wright Mine in Quebec, was the largest surface iron ore-producing mine in Canada, producing approximately 22 million tonnes of iron ore and an estimated 65.6 million metric tons per annum (mmtpa) of Run-of-Mine (ROM) in 2021. The Mont Wright Mine is owned by ArcelorMittal SA, and is due to operate until 2052. Where is […]

In addition to his exploration of the St. Lawrence region, Jacques Cartier is credited with giving Canada its name. He reportedly misused the Iroquois word kanata (meaning village or settlement) to refer to the entire region around what is now Quebec City; it was later extended to the entire country. Did Cartier discover Canada? French […]

The First Europeans European exploration began in earnest in 1497 with the expedition of John Cabot, who was the first to draw a map of Canada’s East Coast. Who discovered Canada for the British Empire? Under letters patent from King Henry VII of England, the Italian John Cabot became the first European known to have […]