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34 Cards in this Set
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James Evans
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pioneer missionary known as the man who made birchbark talk |
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Frederic Banting & Charles Best |
Canadian researchers who discovered insulin for diabetica |
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Acadians |
refused to pledge loyalty to British |
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loyalists |
American colonist who moved to Canada because they didn't want to fight against Britain for American Independence |
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Canada's most important natural resource
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fish |
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Nickle
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most produced from Canada |
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Canada leads the production of what?
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newsprint |
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Canada leads the world in exporting what?
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wheat
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Canada's government
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Constitutional monarcy |
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Mounties |
police who first formed to stop men from America from crossing into Canada |
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Northwest Passage
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Passageway the English and French wanted to find from N. America to Asia |
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Hudson Bay company |
Canada's oldest business
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French and Indian war |
war between France and England over Canada |
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New France |
French claims in the new land |
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Winnipeg |
gateway to the west |
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Montreal
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polar bear capital of the world |
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Vancouver
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Canada's gateway to the Pacific |
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Ottawa |
Capital of Canada |
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Toronto |
largest city in Canada |
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Quabec City |
only walled city in Canada |
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Bay of Fundy |
famous for having some of the highest tides in the world |
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McKinsy River |
Canada's longest River |
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Lake Superior
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largest fresh water lake in the world |
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Mt. Logan |
Canada's highest peak
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Niagra Falls |
more water flows over N.F. per second than any other waterfall in the world |
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Hudson Bay
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world's largest bay |
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St. Lawrence seaway |
largest inland seaway in the world |
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John Cabot |
first modern explorer to reach N. American mainland |
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Jack Cartier |
his explorations allowed France to claim Canada & started a fur trade with the Indians and France |
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Samuel De Champlain |
helped build the first important settlement in the new world - Quebec |
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Henry Hudson |
discovered Hudson Bay |
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Isabel Kuhn |
writer who wrote about missions in China |
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Captain Cook & Vancouver |
Explored & mapped the Pacific ocean |
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