"Canada
• Location: Between three oceans – the Atlantic ocean, the Arctic ocean and the Pacific
o The only neighbour – the USA
• Area: 17 million square kilometres  2nd largest country in the world
• 6 time zones
• Big cities: Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Québec, capitals of the provinces (Winnipeg); capital city Ottawa
Population
o 25 million inhabitants (most of them are immigrants – 30% French, 30% British, 20% German, rest are Polish, Italian, …)
o Urban cities
o Highest is around the great lakes
• Religions:
o Protestants - majority
o The Roman Catholic Church
History of Canada
• Original inhabitants: Indians, Eskimos (Inuits), the Vikings
(from Scandinavia)
• John Cabot
o Italian navigator, explorer
o He stepped on America land one year before Ch. Columbus, but he didn’t explore the country
• Jacques Cartier
o French navigator, explored Canada, sailed St. Lawrence river and reached place where is Montreal nowadays 
o First trade centre of changing things between Europeans and Indians (timber – stavební dřevo, leather, fear, tobacco, spices)
• The origin of the name Canada: According to the name “kannata”, which in Indian language means settlement
• New France ( = name of Canada, colony)
- First French colony, French influence was bigger than British at the beginnings
• The fights for Canada
o Second half of the 18th century  7-year-long colonial war between GB and France"

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