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CharonPlu
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CANADA
*POST UNDER CONSTRUCTION*
Welcome to the CANADA general information Thread.
To start off with, and to appease your appetite, I will post a link to PB's very own info for Canada: Canada Info.
Second, I'd like to give a little bit of detail about our Great country in general...
(Update: As Provincial pages are posted, the names below shall act as links to those pages.)
Canada has 10 provinces (joining date):
- Alberta (1905)
- British Columbia (1871)
- Manitoba (1870)
- New Brunswick (1867)
- Newfoundland (1949)
- Nova Scotia (1867)
- Ontario (1867)
- Prince Edward Island (1873)
- Quebec (1867)
- Saskatchewan (1905)
And 3 territories (joining date):
- Northwest Territories (1870)
- Nunavut (1999)
- Yukon Territory (1889)
Official Languages: English, French
***...more to come...***
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Dolores
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We can tell them what capital cities of provinces and territories are:
- Alberta - Edmonton
- British Columbia - Victoria
- Manitoba - Winnipeg
- New Brunswick - Fredericton
- Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's
- Nova Scotia - Halifax
- Ontario - Toronto
- Prince Edward Island - Charlottetown
- Quebec - Québec City
- Saskatchewan - Regina
And 3 territories:
- Northwest Territories - Yellowknife
- Nunavut - Iqaluit
- Yukon Territory - Whitehorse
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Origin of the name - Canada
The story goes that in 1535, two First Nation young men told Jacques Cartier (the first explorer of the Gulf of St. Lawrence which became the gateway to French power in North America), about the route to "kanata". They were referring to the village of Stadacona; "kanata" was simply the Huron-Iroquois word for "village" or "settlement."
But for want of another name, Cartier used "Canada" to refer not only to Stadacona (the site of present day Quebec City), but also to the entire area subject to its chief, Donnacona. The name was soon applied to a much larger area: maps in 1547 designated everything north of the St. Lawrence River as "Canada."
Cartier also called the St. Lawrence River the "rivière de Canada", a name used until the early 1600s. By 1616, although the entire region was known as New France, the area along the great river of Canada and the Gulf of St. Lawrence was still called Canada.
Soon explorers and fur traders opened up territory to the west and to the south and the area depicted as "Canada" grew. In the early 1700s, the name referred to all lands in what is now the American Midwest and as far south as the present day Louisiana.
The first use of "Canada" as an official name came in 1791 when the Province of Quebec was divided into the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada. In 1841, the two Canadas were again united under one name, the Province of Canada. At the time of Confederation, the new country assumed the name of Canada 
...and as Charon mentioned...more to come!...
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