Tag: Canada

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (Canada) The city of Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories. It is located on the northern shore of the Great Slave Lake. Yellowknife is called the “diamond” capital of North America. One of the country’s first diamond quarries is located 300 km north of it. From Yellowknife, “diamond tours” are […]

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec. It is located on the island of the same name at the confluence of the Ottawa River into the St. Lawrence River, and, together with the cities and small islands adjacent to it, makes up the Montreal agglomeration. Just 170 km west of the city […]

According to payhelpcenter, the city of Edmonton is the capital of the province of Alberta. It serves as a starting point for many of the region’s natural attractions. This is a small town, but here is one of the most famous shopping areas in the world and the largest shopping center on the planet – […]

Canada has repeatedly taken initiatives in the field of arms control and disarmament. Thus, in 1996, she decisively led the campaign to ban anti-personnel mines, which led in December 1997 to the signing of an international agreement by representatives of more than 100 countries at a conference convened at the invitation of Canada in Ottawa. Check […]

CULTURE: CINEMA Severe censorship and US dominance, still persisting, in distribution and theaters conditioned local cinema in the first decades. In 1939, with the creation of the Office National du Film, the state set out to “introduce Canada to Canadians” through educational and didactic films. Paradoxically, the first management positions were entrusted to two foreigners: […]

CULTURE: MUSIC Canadian music can be divided into three strands: the indigenous one (of Indians and Eskimos), that of European immigrants, and finally the more recent one of cultured music. Little is known of the music of the Indians; On the other hand, there is ample documentation concerning the Eskimos which makes it possible to […]

With the colonization of the country, European architectural forms were imported into Canada, but some local characteristics soon developed within this import culture, such as country houses and churches with steeply sloping roofs. In the English period (1763-1867) both the Regency style and the North American Georgian style were established, while in the second half […]

According to businesscarriers, Canadian literature of French expression only developed in the nineteenth century. For almost a century after the cession of New France to the English (1763), literary production was almost non-existent, as all the energies were devoted to the preservation of the rights of the French-speaking population. The documents of that period have […]

Anglo-Canadian literature begins with travel writings by two Englishmen and precisely with Account of a Journey from the Hudson Bay to the North-West (1795; Narration of a journey from Hudson Bay to the North-West) by Samuel Hearne and with Voyages from Montreal through the Continent of North America (1801; Journeys from Montreal across the continent […]

CULTURE: GENERAL INFORMATION The cultural scenario of Canada is a mosaic of traditions, values, practices belonging to both native populations (Indian and Inuit) and those of European origin (mainly French and English). Over time, the US presence has also developed on this basis, whose penetrative force has been even more incisive towards its direct neighbors, […]