Canada

Canada Canada covers the entire northern half of North America continent except for Alaska and Greenland. Ottawa is currently the capital of Canada with the population being 26,941,000 people in year 2004. The currency of Canada is the Canadian dollar and it is approximately $AUD. The education of Canada is using the 6-4-3 system where you start at five years old to sixteen years old. Six or eight years of primary, four or five years of secondary school and three to four years of high school. The main trade of Canada is transportation, chemicals, minerals, food, wood, fish, petroleum and natural gas. These trades are used a lot in Canada and a lot or other countries. Some animals in Canada include: beaver, coyotes, foxes, squirrels, weasels, wolves, skunks and lynx. The black bear is common in many parts of Canada’s forests, grasslands and also in the tundra. Canada has landforms such as the high lands (mountains), the low lands (plains). There are also mountain ranges of the western cordillera. The landmarks of Canada include Montreal, Niagara Falls, northern Ontario, and Ottawa Toronto and thousands of islands. The area of Canada is 9,970,610 square kilometres.