The Evolution Of Canada :: Canadian Culture

The developing Of Canada Canada, independent nation in North America. A country well-heeled in mineralsand agriculture, it was settled by the French and English and became anindependent rural area country with a federal system of g overnment, inwhich the provinces enjoy a large measure of autonomy. Land and Economy. The 2nd-largest country in the world (after the USSR),Canada occupies the N half of the North American continent, stretching Eand W from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans, N from the 49th parallel to theNorth Pole, including all the islands in the Arctic Ocean from W ofGreenland to Alaska. It is divided into 10 provinces, which are (E-W) cleanfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec,Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. Twoterritories--Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory--are in the N and NW.The outstanding geological suckconade is the Canadian Shield, a 1,850,000-sq-mi (4,791,500-sq-km) arc of Pre-Cambri an rock from Labrador around Hudson verbalize to the Arctic islands. The Shield, site of once great mountain chains skeletal down and covered by the sea, contains valuable minerals--gold, silver,platinum, copper, nickel, cobalt, iron, and zinc--making Canada one of themost beta mining countries in the world. The Shields N portion is atreeless arena with permanently frozen subsoil in its S section areforests. Extending from the Shields W border to the Canadian Rockies areprairies more than 800mi (1,288km) wide that recurrence wheat, the dominant crop,and are centers of livestock raising. W Canada is a land of mountains withfishing, agriculture, and clayey as important industries. With thedevelopment of major oil and natural gas deposits since the 1950s in the W,the now-dominant energy industry has resulted in dramatic economical cropthere, and made Canada a major oil-producing country. The E provincesprovide luxuriant farm lands, forests, coal mines, and major fishing sourc esalong the long coastline. first of a route into the interior for earlysettlers, the St Lawrence-Great Lakes area is the most populous section ofCanada as well as its economic and political center. It contains over 60%of the population. Abundant minerals have made Canada the world leader inthe production of silver, nickel, potash, and zinc second in gypsum,asbestos, uranium, and sulfur third in gold, lead, and platinum fourth inmagnesium and fifth in copper. character is also valuable, and Canada is aworld leader in newsprint production. The growth of manufacturing duringthe 1950s and 1960s changed Canada from a rural society to an industrialand urban country. Farming employs 7% of the working population.