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SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA 312 SHOPPING IN CANADA 380 ENTERTAINMENT IN CANADA 382 SPECIALTY VACATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 384 S URVIVAL G UIDE PRACTICAL INFORMATION 390 INDEX AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 412 O NTARIO INTRODUCING ONTARIO 156 TORONTO 162 OTTAWA AND EASTERN ONTARIO 188 THE GREAT LAKES 204 C ENTRAL C ANADA INTRODUCING CENTRAL CANADA 226 CENTRAL CANADA 232 The Basilica of SainteAnne-du-Beaupré... network of highways: the Trans -Canada Highway, a hectic six-lane highway, crosses the city as number 20 or the Autoroute Métropolitain E NVIRONS St-Laurent Dollard des Ormeaux Longueuil Montreal Côte St-Luc 0 km Lac St-Louis 5 Brossard 0 miles 5 A P O R T R A I T A PORTRAIT O F C A N A D A OF 13 CANADA B with ancient forests, rugged mountains, and large cosmopolitan cities, Canada is unimaginably vast,... years ago Canada was inhabited by aboriginal peoples but by the 19th century it had been settled by Europeans Today, the country is noted as a liberal, multicultural society LESSED In part, Canada s heritage the country has had of tolerance is a result difficulties evolving a of its conflict-ridden past national identity When Two centuries of comPierre Berton, one of promise was necessary Canada s most... acceptable, though the people of the north prefer Inuit (meaning “the people”) Included among Canada s native peoples are the Métis, mixed race descendants of aboriginal peoples and French-speaking European traders S OCIETY The joint official languages of Canada are French and English, and the interplay between Canada s two largest linguistic and cultural groups is evident in the capital city of Ottawa,... support to leave Canada and, although the electorate voted “No” on both occasions, it was a close result Sadly, the issue of Quebec’s relationship with the rest of Canada is still unresolved, and further poliChanging of the Guard outside Ottawa’s Parliament Building tical disputes seem inevitable Since the 1980s aboriginal poliG OVERNMENT AND P OLITICS tics has come to the fore with camCanada is a parliamentary... to create daring films Atanarjuat ing capable of representing (The Fast Runner), a beauCanada’s wilderness, a tiful film written, directed, theme developed by their acted and produced by contemporaries and succesInuit, was a surprise intersors, notably Emily Carr national hit in 2001 Canada s world-class Behind Canada s flourmuseums and galleries repishing cultural life, lies a resent the country’s... 24 C A N A D A French Canada are quick to point out that Canada s origins are more French than British, that the first European Canadians were explorers from France, and therefore called canadiens French Canadians “Free Quebec” have had a centuries-long history of demonstrator conquest and battle to preserve their language and culture, strongest in Quebec and parts of Atlantic Canada This has left large... Territories By comparison with their white compatriots, Canada s native population remains, nonetheless, poor and disadvantaged The rectification of historic wrongs will take decades, even assuming that the political will remains strong enough to improve matters 27 I N T R O D U C I N G 28 C A N A D A Art in Canada First Nations groups have produced art in Canada since prehistoric times: the Inuit carved... country in 1759 The self-governing The second largest country in the colonies of British North America world, Canada has a surface area of spent three years hammering out the 9,970,610 sq km (3,849,652 sq miles) agreement that brought them Over 40 percent of the land is north together as the Dominion of Canada of the treeline at 60˚ latitude; this in 1867 Newfoundland did not extraordinarily hostile and sparsely... bridge to become the first human inCanada’s national symbol It was the habitants of North America, and over The bald eagle, a common sight around the Charlotte Island archipelago in British Columbia A P O R T R A I T O F C A N A D A every federal speech the succeeding cenand bill has to be delivturies their descendants ered in both languages gradually moved south Canada s population Archaeological . miles 500 500