Tag: Canada

The Second World War strengthened relations with the USA, to which the country was bound by defense agreements and by joining the Atlantic Pact. This made it urgent for Canada to safeguard its political and economic individuality as a state. This problem and that of the relations between Anglophone and French-speaking Canadians constitute the two […]

HISTORY: LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES The two rival groups gave rise to the two traditional parties, reformist and conservative first, liberal and conservative then, which still control Canadian political life today. These internal conflicts, complicated by those with the French speakers and by the demographic increase, provoked in 1837 two revolts in Upper and Lower Canada, […]

HISTORY: COLONIZATION Before the arrival of the Europeans, the territories that now form Canada, completely unrelated to each other, were sparsely inhabited by nomadic Indian tribes. Around the year 1000 the Norman Leif Ericssonn arrived there, the first European, but the real discovery dates back to 1497, by Giovanni Caboto in the service of Henry […]

The vegetation reflects the latitudinal variation of the climate and soils. About half of the Canadian territory has frozen soils for most of the year or all year round (pergelisol): this greatly reduces the chances of plant life. The tundras cover the whole of “Upper Canada” to the southern shores of Baffin Bay. In the […]

Alberta Alberta [.mu.l bə ː tə], the western prairie provinces of Canada, 640,330 km 2, (2017) 4,290,000 residents (1971: 1.6 million residents); The capital is Edmonton, the largest city is Calgary. The south-eastern part, 600–1,000 m above sea level, once open prairie, merges into extensive forests to the north. In the west, Alberta extends over […]

Structurally, the territory has its fundamental element in the so-called Canadian shield, the archaeozoic continental mass which constitutes the very backbone of the subcontinent; it is delimited to the S by the furrow of the San Lorenzo River, beyond which the region of the Appalachian corrugations begins, while towards the N it extends to the […]

ECONOMY: GENERAL INFORMATION Canada is a very rich, self-sufficient country and possesses almost all kinds of raw materials, both mining and agricultural, the latter sector in which it ranks among the top world exporters. A country today characterized by an advanced economy, Canada was characterized, until the mid-nineteenth century, by a massive exploitation of its […]

TERRITORY: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. THE POPULATION At the time of its discovery by the Europeans, the Canadian territory was home to several hundred thousand Indians and in the “Great North” several tens of thousands of Inuit (Eskimos). Now these communities constitute a minimal percentage (0.2% Inuit and 2.2% Amerindian) of the total population, represented by Europeans, […]

ECONOMY: AGRICULTURE, FORESTS, FARMING, FISHING Although it participates in a very low percentage in the formation of national wealth, agriculture represents an important sector on which a large part of the export sector is based. Given the environmental conditions, agriculture has limited areas (5% of the territorial surface) but very extensive and diversified according to […]

The tertiary sector contributes to the country’s GDP by covering almost 70.9%. Internal trades make use of a distribution service similar to that of the United States, based on large supermarkets. Many consumer goods are imported (mainly from the United States) as Canada has not yet reached a sufficiently large variety of manufacturing industries. The […]