Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada and is Canada’s largest province by area. It is the second-most populous province of Canada and is the only one to have a predominately French-speaking population. The climate around the major cities is four seasons continental with cold and snowy winters combined with warm…
Ontario is a province of Canada. Located in Central Canada and is Canada’s most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country’s population, and is the second-largest province in total area. It is home to the nation’s capital city Ottawa, and the nation’s most populous city, Toronto which is also Ontario’s provincial capital. The great…
Prince Edward Island is a province and one of the three Maritime Provinces. It is the smallest province of Canada in both land area and population, but it is the most densely populated. Its capital is Charlottetown. The backbone of the island economy is farming and it produces 25% of Canada’s potatoes. Other important industries…
Nova Scotia is one of Canada’s three Maritime Provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada. Its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest of Canada’s ten provinces, with an area of 55,284 square kilometres. It includes Cape Breton and another 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2016, the population was 923,598….
In August 1896, gold was discovered on Rabbit Creek, later named Bonanza. When word reached the outside world, the Klondike Stampede began. Over 100,000 people started out for the Klondike goldfields and some 30,000 actually reached Dawson City in the summer of 1898. At this time Dawson City was the largest centre west of Winnipeg…
Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site is one of Canada’s fine examples of how the fur trade helped shape the nation. Enjoy exhibits, walk through archaeological remains of the four forts, get hands on experience with Métis skills of the fur trade. Stay awhile and camp in Indigenous trapper’s tents and tipis. Rocky Mountain House…
Nunavut is the newest, largest, and most northerly territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999. Nunavut comprises a major portion of Northern Canada, and most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Its vast territory makes it the fifth-largest country subdivision in the world, as well as North America’s…
Discover ice planes and bush planes, the wild Nahanni River or the mammoth Wood Buffalo National Park, and top your tour off with a night show of lights. The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately 1,144,000 km2 , it is the second-largest and the most populous of the…
New Brunswick is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada. According to the Constitution of Canada, New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two-thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones, and one third francophones. One-third of the population describes themselves as bilingual. The capital city is Fredericton. New Brunswick’s terrain…
British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 4.8 million as of 2017, it is Canada’s third-most populous province. In 1866, Vancouver Island became part of the colony of British Columbia, and Victoria became the united colony’s capital. In 1871, British…