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	Canada - MSN Encarta
		Canada is the second largest country in the world but has about the same population as the state of California, which is about 4 percent of Canada’s size.
		This is because the north of Canada, with its harsh Arctic and sub-Arctic climates, is sparsely inhabited.
		Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563379/Canada.html (1190 words)

	Wikinfo \| Canada
		Canada is the northernmost country in North America, bordered by the United States in the south (the world's longest undefended border) and northwest (Alaska).
		Canada is a constitutional monarchy, the head of state being the monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II.
		Eastern Canada is divided between boreal forest and the barren Canadian Shield in the north and the highly fertile Saint Lawrence River Valley in the south, where most of the country's population is concentrated.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Canada (1463 words)

	Canada - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Canada is a constitutional monarchy and a Commonwealth Realm that formally recognizes Elizabeth II as Queen of Canada, Role and Responsibilities of the Governor General whose duties are performed on a day-to-day basis by the Governor General at the federal level and by the Lieutenant-Governors at the provincial level.
		Canada's two official languages, English and French, are the mother tongues of 56.3% and 28.7% of the population respectively.
		Canada is known for its vast forests and mountain ranges, and the animals that reside within them, such as moose, beavers, caribou, polar bears, grizzly bears, Canada goose and the common loon.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Canada (5103 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		CANADA, federated state, N North America, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, formerly known as the Dominion of Canada.
		Canada comprises ten provinces, each with a separate legislature and administration, and three territories, each of which is governed by a federally appointed commissioner, an elected assembly, and an executive council.
		During the 19th century, exploitation of the white-pine forests of the Laurentian region was initiated, and timber became the staple item of export.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/canada.html (7924 words)

	History of Canada
		Canada, which has been inhabited by aboriginal peoples, known in Canada as the First Nations, for about 10,000 years, was first visited by Europeans around 1000, when the Vikings briefly settled at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
		The former Province (colony) of Canada formed two provinces of the new Dominion of Canada, being partitioned into Quebec and Ontario along the old boundary between Lower and Upper Canada.
		In the second half of the 20th century, some citizens of the mainly French-speaking province of Quebec sought independence in two referendums held in 1980 and 1995.
	www.historyofnations.net /northamerica/canada.html (695 words)

	Canada page
		Canada was one of the first parts of the Americas reached by Europeans in modern times.
		Modern Canada exists because at the end of the American War of Independence the British still controlled the St Lawrence Valley and the colonies associated with it which had not joined the rebel colonies.
		It was in Canada that the principle of Dominion status within the British Empire was devised.
	www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/americas/canada.html (1507 words)

	CANADA
		Canada spans an immense territory between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east (hence the country's motto), with the United States to the south (contiguous United States) and northwest (Alaska), and the Arctic Ocean to the north; Greenland is to the northeast.
		Canada's position between the Soviet Union (now Russia) and the US was strategically important during the Cold War as the route over the North Pole and Canada was the fastest route by air between the two countries and the most direct route for intercontinental ballistic missiles.
		Canada claims 12 nautical miles (22 km) of territorial sea, a contiguous zone of 24 nautical miles (44 km), an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles (370 km) and a continental shelf of 200 nautical miles (370 km) or to the edge of the continental margin.
	www.solarnavigator.net /geography/canada.htm (3667 words)

	Top20Canada.com - Your Top20 Guide to Canada!
		Canada is a country occupying northern North America, bounded to the south by the United States, northwest by Alaska, east by the Atlantic Ocean and west by the Pacific Ocean.
		The Canadas were merged into a single colony, the United Province of Canada, with the Act of Union (1840) in an attempt to assimilate the French Canadians.
		Canada's head of state is the monarch, currently Elizabeth II and commonly referred to as the Queen of Canada.
	www.top20canada.com (4511 words)

	Canada, An Early History, Part Four (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The refugees, known as United Empire Loyalists, were the objects of considerable concern to the British government, which sought to compensate them for their losses and to assist them in establishing new homes.
		The loyalists who settled in Canada were for the most part quite different from those who went to what were soon to be called the Maritime Colonies.
		Nothing that had been given the French in 1774 was revoked, but the form of government was changed to the familiar one of governor with his executive council, a legislative council, and an assembly elected on what was for the time a wide franchise.
	www.history-world.org /canada3.htm (1532 words)

	16th century in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 15th century in Canada, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
		France was also too preoccupied with domestic religious wars to make any substantial commitment.
		The discovery of Canada was important, however, to English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese fishing fleets, all of which regularly fish the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/16th_century_in_Canada (555 words)

	Rafferty Taylor
		These coins were introduced to commemorate the colonization of Canada and Louisiana, and to recognize the importance of increased trade with the New World.
		The banking system that did developed in Canada was quite different from the one established by their southern neighbor, the United States.
		The Bank of Canada is involved, on an ongoing basis, in the ever-evolving processes required to develop and implement a more efficient international clearing and settlement system.
	facweb.furman.edu /~dstanford/41papers/taylor.html (2431 words)

	The Gaspe Penisula, Canada
		century, French fur traders were regular visitors to the area but it was not until 1608, after several failed attempts, that Samuel de Champlain founded the first permanent French settlement at the site now known as Quebec City.
		The spine of the Appalachian Ridge separates the northern shore from the southern shore and the Matapedia Valley dislocates the peninsula itself from the rest of Quebec.
		century, villagers climbed to its summit to collect an annual harvest of about three tons of hay but climbing the rock was prohibited after one man lost his life.
	www.great-adventures.com /destinations/canada/gaspe.html (5196 words)

	Duelling, Crazy Canucks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 16th century France, the aristocrats were so thin-skinned that dueling had reached epidemic proportions.
		In Atlantic Canada, competition for clients and disputes over fees were the leading cause of many duels involving lawyers.
		The last recorded deadly duel in Canada was in 1838 at the Verdun Racetrack of Montreal.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2003/spyros031003.htm (510 words)

	Introduction - 16th Century - Jacques Cartier - Passageways
		Jacques Cartier - Pathfinders & Passageways: The Exploration of Canada
		He is credited with being the first European discoverer of the St. Lawrence River and the first European to make a map of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
		He gave Canada its name, after he mistook the Mohawk word for village (kana:ta') as the name of the whole land.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/kids/h3-1320-e.html (179 words)

	Censuses of Canada. 1665 to 1871. Introduction. Early Exploration.
		These animals, with the produce of fishing, were the only means of subsistence for the settlers of the second colonizing expedition, whom M. de la Roche placed on this island in 1578, and they have since been a valuable assistance to distressed seamen and fishermen.
		Of the animals thus transplanted at the beginning of the sixteenth century, there remain only the rabbits, which have so multiplied that the island has become a warren, and the horses, which appear to maintain themselves in a troop of about 150 in number.
		The cattle disappeared several years ago, the herd having become extinct by the repeated attacks of the crews of the fishing vessels.
	www.statcan.ca /english/freepub/98-187-XIE/earlyexp.htm (687 words)

	France in America -- La France en Amérique
		The development of a hydrographic school in Normandy during the 16th century was an expression of this northwestern French province’s maritime dynamism.
		The 1566 world map of Nicolas Desliens, with a royal flag, showed the three zones of French settlement in America during the 16th century: Canada and the “Land of Labrador,” the “May River” in Florida, and the “River Plate” in Brazil.
		For Canada, 28 place-names were extracted from the writings of Jacques Cartier—of which seven were original; “Quebec” made its appearance here for the first time.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /intldl/fiahtml/fiatheme1c1.html (1081 words)

	Media, Technology and Society: Happy Canada Day!
		Canada celebrates its 139th birthday, and all us Canucks are proud to celebrate this country and its accomplishments.
		Canada has a parliament developed according to the British "westminster model of government." Although Canada has removed the last of its official governmental ties to the British government, it retains the same formal head of state - the Queen of England - as does Britain.
		The name later appeared in 16th century maps labelling ever larger parts of what is now referred to as Canada.
	percipere.typepad.com /media/2006/07/happy_canada_da.html (765 words)

	Introduction - 16th Century - John Cabot - Passageways
		John Cabot - Pathfinders & Passageways: The Exploration of Canada
		John Cabot led explorations from Bristol, England to North America in 1497 and 1498.
		When he came back to England after his first voyage, he told stories of there being so many fish near this "new found land" that one could walk across water.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/kids/h3-1310-e.html (86 words)

	MWC - Remembering the Cloud of Witnesses: Second Ecumenical Conference on 16th-century Martyrdom
		The conference was entitled, "Sixteenth century martyrdom in ecumenical perspective." Ivan Kauffman, a Washington, D.C.-based writer and one of the conference organizers, provided this framework: "The church today stands between a past marred by extensive violence and a future committed to peacemaking.
		The purpose of the ecumenical conferences at St. John's is to carry forward what the Pope calls the "purification of memory." Others call it a "right remembering" of not only the Anabaptist martyr experience but also the persecution and hostility faced by Catholics and other Christians in other contexts.
		Arnold Snyder, a Mennonite professor of history at Conrad Grebel College in Ontario (Canada) and author of Following in the Footsteps of Christ: The Anabaptist Spirituality (Orbis 2004), presented a case study of an early Anabaptist martyr, Hans Schlaffer.
	www.mwc-cmm.org /News/MWC/040812rls3.html (771 words)

	Liberals lose confidence of the House
		Martin is expected to call for a slightly longer campaign, setting the vote for mid-January, either the 16th or the 23rd, with an agreement among the parties to take a holiday break and stop campaigning between Dec. 23 and Jan. 3.
		Fifteen weapons, including restricted firearms, are missing from the Kanesatake Mohawk police force, according to a confidential audit report that probed security for the territory west of Montreal.
		Canada is becoming a global trendsetter in mortgage fraud, a crime and risk management expert told an anti-fraud conference that opened in Toronto on Tuesday.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/story/2005/11/28/noconfidencevote051128.html (1539 words)

	Free Essay 16th and 17th Century Performance Conditions
		Depictions of Women in the 16th and 17th Century: German and China
		A 4 page overview of the different approaches to colonization of Spain and Portugal verses England, France, and Holland in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
		This 9 page paper considers the issue of the introduction of European influences in Canada in the 16th and 17th centuries.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=27911 (524 words)

	Canada
		I dozed again and soon we were arriving in Vancouver.
		We landed in rain and caught the commuter bus to our hotel, The Century Plaza in Burrard Street.
		It was pelting down as we got out of the bus on the wrong side of the street and dragged our luggage to the hotel.
	warriordoc.com /ogd/canada.htm (413 words)

	16th Century Encyclopedia Article @ Deserved.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		15th century - 16th century - 17th century
		As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600.
		Directory: Arts: Literature: World Literature: British: 16th Century: Life and Times
	www.deserved.net /encyclopedia/16th_century (1600 words)

	Royal Commonwealth Society Canada \| Main Page
		This website describes the activities of the Royal Commonwealth Society of Canada (RCS), and provides links to major Commonwealth resources on the Web.
		Our purpose is to promote the increase and spread of knowledge respecting the peoples and countries of the Commonwealth.
		The following is a submission to the Commonwealth Ministers of Education and Teachers attending the 16th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Cape Town, South Africa in December 2006.
	rcs.ca (344 words)

	Migration Information Source - Country Resources - Canada
		Canada: Policy Changes and Integration Challenges in an Increasingly Diverse Society
		A steady stream of research since the 2001 census has highlighted the ways in which Canada is changing socially and demographically.
		The Foreign Born from Canada in the United States
	www.migrationinformation.org /Resources/canada.cfm (230 words)

	Recreating 16th and 17th Century Clothing: The Renaissance Tailor
		A man's shirt, probably French, 13th century shows the insertion of a gore into the center front and center back of the shirt (fig.
		Another example is a woman's shirt, probably Italian, 17th century showing square gussets inserted under the arms (fig.
		The magic of gores and gussets comes not only from where they are inserted but how they are cut from the fabric.
	www.vertetsable.com /demos_goresgussets.htm (1138 words)

	Suggested Readings
		1977 The identification of Labrador ports in Spanish 16th century documents.
		1993 Basque fisheries and whaling in Labrador in the 16th century.
		1996 Chronological refinement of Basque whaling stations in the Gulf and Estuary of the St. Lawrence from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/features/gateways/pages/page23.htm (694 words)

	Planet Ark : Depleted fisheries sound alarm for Earth Summit
		He estimated the number of commercial boats on the water was 2.5 times the maximum that could be allowed for sustainable fishing.
		Fish stocks around the world are in decline, underscored by the dramatic collapse of the once abundant cod fishery off eastern Canada, where 16th century explorers claimed they could throw baskets overboard and haul them up laden with fish.
		More than 70 percent of the world's commercially important fish stocks are either over-exploited, depleted, slowly recovering or close to the maximum sustainable level of exploitation, according to the United Nations.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/17452/story.htm (674 words)

	Lamson Library » Blog Archive » The Myth Of The Savage, And The Beginnings Of French Colonialism In The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Indians, Treatment of — North America — History — 16th century
		Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
		This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 17th, 2004 at 12:00 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1324351 (333 words)

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