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 * CANADA **

In this article I’m going to tell you about the English speaking country Canada. I will start with some facts about the country, afterwards I’m going to tell you about the history of Canada and at last I will tell you about the similarities and differences between Canada and Britain.

**Capital:** Ottawa **Largest city:** Torronto **Official languages:** English and French **Population:** 33 460 00 **National day:** 1.July

Much of the nature in Canada is much alike the nature in USA, but something that is special about Canada’s geography is all the plain bedrock. In almost every direction are there coastlines. Beyond in the south was Canada is bordering to USA. The total coastline in Canada, including the islands, are 96 089 km. That will be the same as 2.4 times around the Earth. There are also many islands that lie in North-Canada. Two of them are Cape Breton Island and Baffin Island. There are also many groups of islands, as for example Queen Elizabeth Islands. Canada lies in the north-westerly wind belt with wandering low pressure, between the cold polar air and the warm air from the south. Therefore the climate in the west Canada is much alike the climate in the west of Norway. In the west of Canada the average temperature in a year is 10ْC. In the area around Rocky Mountains the winters are quite cold, while the summers are relative warm. From the inland plain and to the east isn’t the difference that big. On the coast of the Atlantic Ocean the rain can get up to 1400mm. The reason why it rains more with this ocean is because that the cold Labrador stream that leads drift ice and iceberg southwards along the coast is here. Because of this are the St. Lawrence River and the arrears around covered with ice in many months a year. In the north there are more than seven months with snow and not much rain at all. The two most spoken languages in Canada are English and French. Naturally, the explanation to this lies in the country’s history. There lived Indians in Canada for a long time before the Europeans came towards the country. Then every tribe had their own language, and therefore couldn’t they communicate with each other. The first common languages came with the first French colonisation, and I will for that reason start here. Many people tried to colonize the country, but no one succeeded before Samuel de Champlain came there in 1604. He came from France, and 59 years later Canada was under the French management and many Frenchmen came overseas. Canada was now big on trading. When furriery started to be popular the Frenchmen started to explore more of the interior. This way the also got the control of this area. Nevertheless, the Indians and the British men that also had colonized Canada not long after were now becoming a big treat to Champlain. This resulted in the seven years long war that ended in 1713. Now the France had to give Canada to the Britain. The French period has had deep marks in the countries’ culture and they are still today speaking French as a consequence of this. In 1867 the Dominion of Canada was created. This because the US was in a strong development, the relationship with Britain started to be endeavour and that there were a lot of internal disagreements. The country had four provinces, but in the time to come many other provinces wanted to be a part of the British dominion. In this period they became very influenced by British culture and traditions. They got English as the common language and a British form of government. During the Second World War, Canada got a close relationship with the US. Nevertheless, they were afraid of being too influenced by them and were focusing much on getting their own Prime Minister. The relationship with the US and Britain were intense during this time, but they needed help from them when they were stroked by Financial Crises. The bond between the English and French speaking people were also strain. Canada became independed from England, and the government agreed that the country should be bilingual. Now the native population got their rights to have their own tracts of land. Today the country is one of the richest in the world and has enormous amounts of natural recourses. The population has still deep marks after the French- and British’s colonisation. For the Norwegian people Canada is most known as a nation of winter sports, but is also impressed by their neighbour USA. Because of the climate Britain isn’t a big nation of winter sports. The national sport in Canada is ice hockey, and came to Canada in the middle of 19’Th century, it is a result of the British land hockey and the Indian ballgame on ice. One other game on ice is curling; witch is a more calm game. People are playing Curling in Britain and Canada, but in Canada it is a national sport and they have over 1000 halls with curling sheets. Curling came to Canada around the 19’Th century, and the country is now the biggest and best curling nation with 21 World Championship gold medals for men and 13 for women. Britain is also playing curling, but because of the climate isn’t Britain one big winter sport nation, but one other ice sport that they have done better in is figure skating. //Canada// //arranged the summer Olympics in Montreal in 1976 and the winter Olympics in 1988 and in 2010 there are going to be the winter Olympics in Vancouver.// Britain is the point of origin for the modern sport. The modern football comes from Britain, were one common set of rules was arranged of the arrangement of the English //The Football Association// (FA) in 1863. Among other things they decide that it was no longer allowed to use the hands to get the ball forwards, and rugby got divided from football with one own association since 1871. Without football is also cricket and rugby some big British team game. Some modern games from Britain are tennis, badminton and squash. The modern Boxing comes into being in England already on the 18’Th century. Original did boxers fight about prizes with money, it was called prizefighting, this was a pretty brutal way, but after a wile the sport got off brutalized. Among others was it induced using glove, and the Queensberry-rules from 1867 was the basis of the modern boxing. Britain have competed in all the summer Olympics from 1896, and arranged the summer Olympics in London in 1908 and 1948. And in 2012 will it be summer Olympics the same plays. ** Since the start of 1960 have Britain, next to USA, been very well in rock and pop music, and there are many British artists that are among the most popular in the world. Some of them are The Beatles, The Rolling Stone, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Elton John, David Bowie and Sting. The British jazz haven’t got that popular, but the musicians like the pianist George Shearing, the guitarist John Mc Laughling, the bass player Dave Holland and the saxophonist John Surman are some of the best. Canada have many world known artist within the modern music, even many of them lives in USA and people look at them like they are Americans. Some of them are Oscar Peterson, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, The Band and Bryan Adams. Many Francophone artists have also done well international for instance Gilles Vigneault and Robert Charlebois. Céline Dion has done great success on bough language.
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 * The history of Canada **
 * - why are they a English speaking country today? **
 * // The first French colonisation //**
 * // The British dominion //**
 * // The independed Canada //**
 * // Holding Canada together //**
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 * Different sports in Canada and Britain: **
 * Music from Canada and Britain:

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