1. 2.1 | Environment and Politics
Canada
2.1 | Environment and Politics

2. Environment The 2nd largest country in the world
The Appalachian Mountains in the east
Oldest mountains in N. America
Fueled the Industrial Revolution
The Rocky Mountains in the west
The Alaskan Range
Yukon Territory
Like the USA, Canada is full of natural resources
Oil, natural gas, gold, silver, copper, iron, et cetera
The Canadian Shield
Niagara falls and hydroelectric power

3. Environment Comfortable climates Extreme climates Marine west cost
Vancouver, British Columbia
Timber exports
Humid continental: Great Plains and East
The Great Banks fishing problem
Blizzards still an issue
Extreme climates
Subarctic: most of Canada
Barely habitable
Tundra: Far north
Barely livable

4. Politics Originally inhabited by Native Americans
Viking explorers 1000 AD: Lief Erickson
Settlements on Newfoundland and Minnesota?
French colonies in eastern Canada
The St. Lawrence River: Quebec and Montreal
Most colonist came, traded, made money, and went home
The Mississippi River and New Orleans (why rivers and coasts?)
The French and Indian War
British control of Canada
Part of the “Commonwealth”
Independence 1867: Parliamentary Democracy with Monarchy