NU- Nunavut ON- Ontario QC- Quebec SK- Saskatchewan YT- Yukon XX- province not specified, or is somewhere in the United States, or somewhere in some other known country YY- somewhere outside Canada or the United States, but other than that, country is unknown ...
First Nations peoples make up about four percent of the population. Inuit people live mostly in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Many Native Canadians live on their traditional lands, but many others have moved to cities across Canada. First Nations artwork is widely recognised and is seen ...
Baffin islandin Nunavut is the largest island in Canada and the world's fifth largest island. Did you know that Canada is amongst the top countries with the most islands and ranks just after Sweden, Norway and Finland but before the United States and Indonesia. Most Canadian islands are locat...
Canada's biggest bay is Hudson Bay which was discovered in 1610 by English explorer Henry Hudson. Hudson Bay is located in Eastern Canada and is frozen from about mid December and mid June every year. Nunavut territory in Northern Canada was only created in 1999 and is home to the Inuit p...
Northeast coast of Baffin Island north of Community of Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada The northernmost permanent settlement in the world is Alert, Nunavut. While the settlement itself is permanent, the personnel is entirely rotating. The settlement was named for the HMS Alert, and is home to a ...
In Nunavut, Canada, the number plate for cars, motorcycles, and snowmobiles are in the shape of a polar bear. There was a bear cub exported from Canada to the London Zoo in 1915 named Winnipeg. This bear inspired a A.A. Milne to write aboutWinnie-the-Poohafter his son Christopher Robin...
3. Quebec is Canada’s largest province by area. At over 1,500,000 sq/km, Quebec is almost 50% larger thanOntario, and only slightly smaller thanAlaska. It is not as large as the Canadian territory ofNunavut, which is over 2,000,000 sq/km in size—but Nunavut is not a province,...
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Canada is a country in North America consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Click to see the fact fil
Since there is no permanent area of residence in the southern parts of the Antarctic Circle, there are only a limited number of regions that experience the midnight sun – Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories of Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Finland, Russia and Alaska in the...