Category: Canada

Your IG Wealth Management guaranteed investment funds and segregated funds contract are now with Canada Life. Who is Canada Life affiliated with? Parent companies Power Financial Corporation (PFC) is the majority stake-holder and owns 72% of Great-West Lifeco, the only one of those finance companies to be a member of the stock exchange composite index. […]

Archaeology – At the Edge of the Ice Full Glacial: 18,000 years ago – At the height of the last Ice Age, glacial ice covered nearly all of Canada and much of Europe and Asia. With much of the earth’s water locked up in ice, sea levels were lowered worldwide by about 100 metres. Was […]

Canada has more lake area than any other country in the world, with 563 lakes larger than 100 square kilometres. The Great Lakes, straddling the Canada-U.S. boundary, contain 18% of the world’s fresh lake water. Why Canada has so many lakes? Most Canadian lakes are of glacial origin. Movements of the Earth’s crust, ie, folding […]

Williston Lake Williston Lake was formed by the W.A.C Bennett Dam, which is one of the world’s largest man-made lakes and is located in Columbia, Canada. Are there man-made lakes in Canada? Indi Lake is a man-made lake in central Saskatchewan, Canada, south of Saskatoon in the rural municipality of Dundurn No. 314. The lake […]

​Property and casualty (P&C) insurance companies in Canada are regulated by federal and/or provincial regulators, called Superintendents of Insurance. Federally, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) regulates the solvency and financial soundness of most P&C insurance companies. Who licenses and regulates insurance agents in Canada? The Office of the Superintendent of Financial […]

Maine is the easternmost US state, situated in the northeastern part of the country, bordering Canada. It is also the northernmost of the six New England states. Maine borders the Canadian provinces of Québec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the north and northeast. What US city is north of Canada? city of Detroit, […]

Cape Columbia (83°06´ 41″ N lat) is Canada’s most northerly point of land. Ellesmere Island, at 196,236 km2, is the third-largest island in Canada, the 10th-largest island in the world and the most northerly island in the Arctic Archipelago. What are the two farthest points in Canada? Longest distance from east to west: 5,514 km […]

In 1867, the Province of Canada was joined with two other British colonies of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia through Confederation, forming a self-governing entity. “Canada” was adopted as the legal name of the new country and the word “Dominion” was conferred as the country’s title. What led to the creation of Canada? Between 1534 […]

In the northwest, in the provinces of Yukon and Northwest Territories, the climate is strongly continental, with a long, cold winter and an intense summer, during which the daytime temperature can sometimes reach 30 °C (86 °F). Does northern Canada have summer? During the short summers, much of Northern Canada is snow free, except for […]

Boreal Forest The boreal forest, also known as the taiga, covers about 60% of the total Canadian land mass. What type of forest is found in Canada? Forest regions are geographic areas with similar dominant tree species Forest region Location Acadian Maritimes Boreal northern Canada Carolinian (Deciduous) southwestern Ontario Coast British Columbia What are the […]