Canadian Geography: Exam Review UNIT 1: CHAPTERS 2-7 Small-scale map- map that shows a small amount of detail for a large area. Eg; 1:250 000 Large-scale map- map that shows a large amount of detail for a small area. Eg; 1:50 000 Types of Maps General-purpose Maps * Provide information on one map * E.g. atlas‚ road maps‚ etc.… Features * Bodies of water * Roads & railway lines * Parks‚ Towns & Cities * Elevations‚ longitude & latitude Thematic Maps
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Celine Dion Celine Dion is the most influential Canadian singer. She was born on march 30 in 1968. She started to sing at the age of 10 and by the age of 12 she was discovered by a local manager-producer René Angélil. He helped the young singer by mortgaging his house to fund her 1981 debut album called La Voix du Bon Dieu. When she first started‚ she didn’t know how to speak english. To be famous around the world‚ she knew that she had to learn how to speak english and that she had to refined
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Gender Issues of Equality in Canadian Society About 2% of females earn more university degrees than males‚ makes up slightly more than half the Canadian population and workforce yet still make $0.82 for every $1 the male earns in the work environment. This wage gap is the 8th largest among OECD countries as the difference expands for Native females and queer women of colour. Gender roles and stereotypes are destructive to the progression of the human race because these labels and standards restrict
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I was right there; This is the moment. One last time around and then I‚ Pari Singh‚ am about to win the Canadian Figure Skating Competition. If I just land this jump perfectly‚ then I will be in the lead. I did it‚ but I could feel my leg swoop out. Wait‚ I thought to myself‚ this isn’t right. My skate didn’t touch the ice yet. I felt as if I were falling a long‚ long way down . . . then plunk. I had fallen down to some place I had been before‚ in a dream. “This has to be the place‚” I told myself
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Americans would dominate over them. So‚ what are the factors that brought the colonies together and made our country the strong nation it is today? One of the factors is threat of American takeover. After the American civil war when the north won the Canadians were afraid that the Americans would then attack Canada. The Americans also believed that one day they would own all of North America including Canada. This scared the British North American colonies. If there were not to come together they would
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The Halifax Explosion was a defining moment in Canadian history‚ due to the tragedy that it created. On 6 December 1917‚ two ships collided and exploded in Halifax Harbour destroying many parts of the city‚ killing almost 2‚000 people and injuring more than 9‚000. The accident occurred at 8:40 a.m. when the ships Imo and Mont Blanc collided in the middle of the harbour. Imo was heading out of the harbour while Mont Blanc was heading in. The Mont Blanc was carrying 2‚653 tonnes of heavy artillery
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Canadian History Since World War 1: Paragraph response The first Moroccan crisis is one of the 3 crises‚ which contributed to the outbreak of world war 1. This happened because France wanted to expand into morocco but Germany did not want this to happen and hoped that if France intruded Morocco it would destroy the English-French relationship between each other But then when the Germans intruded Morocco which just made the French and the Germans get closer together instead
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Political parties have existed for many years and support societies in achieving goals and objectives. It is hard to imagine what like would be like without them. G. Bingham Powell found that: Political parties are the institutions that link the voting choices of individual citizens with aggregate electoral outcomes in the competitive democracies. The parties set the alternatives offered to the citizens in elections and their organized activities can encourage both registration and election-day
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Today‚ I am going to grant to you my first Canadian experience and what’s more the things that have surprised me all through my concentrates‚ particularly the atmosphere and nature in Canada. I might need to say that when I at first moved to Canada‚ the prospect that I had in my mind was one of a representation picture of Niagara Falls and Maple trees shading. This was a result of the way that I had a photograph on my kitchen refrigerator while I was living in Vadodara city‚ India. I had for quite
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and a good justice system. Like most systems‚ the justice system in Canada is far from being perfect. There are multiple occasions where people are convicted of committing a crime that they truthfully did not do. One of that being Guy Paul Morin a Canadian citizen who was convicted for the murder and rape of his 9 year old neighbor Christine Jessop just for being weird. People can learn from Guy Paul Morin by him showing that the justice system has
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