| Administrative-territorial division : Alberta |
 17 Mar 2006 |
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Alberta is one of Canada's provinces. It celebrated 100 years as a province on September 1, 2005.
Alberta is located in western Canada.
It is bounded
on the west by the province of British Columbia,
on the north by the Northwest Territories,
on the east by the province of Saskatchewan,
and on the south by the United States of America (State of Montana).
Alberta's capital is the city... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : British Columbia |
06 Jun 2006 |
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British Columbia, often also referred to as B.C. or BC (French: Colombie-Britannique, C.-B.), is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ("Splendour without diminishment"). It was the sixth province to join Confederation (in 1871). As of 1 January 2006, its population is estimated at 4,279,462 by StatsCan. Residents... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : Manitoba |
06 Jun 2006 |
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Manitoba is one of Canada's provinces. It is the fifth Canadian province (created by the government in 1870). Its population as of January 1, 2006 (Statistics Canada) was 1,178,348 (Manitobans). It is the easternmost of the three Prairie provinces.
Its capital and largest city (containing over one half the provincial population) is Winnipeg. Other important cities and towns include Brandon, Thompson,... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : New Brunswick |
06 Jun 2006 |
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New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick), is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and the only officially bilingual province (French and English) in the country. Its capital is Fredericton. The provincial Department of Finance estimates that the province's population in 2005 is 758,000 (New Brunswickers). ... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : New Scotland |
06 Jun 2006 |
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Nova Scotia (Nouvelle-Écosse in French, Alba Nuadh in Gaelic) is a Canadian province located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in the Maritimes, and its capital, Halifax, is the economic and cultural centre of the region. Nova Scotia is the second smallest province in Canada, with an area of only 55,284 km², and its population of 937,889[1] Nova Scotians (or, less formally,... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : Newfoundland and Labrador |
06 Jun 2006 |
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Newfoundland and Labrador (French, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradóir, Latin: Terra Nova) is a province of Canada, the tenth to join the Confederation. Geographically, the province consists of the island of Newfoundland and the mainland Labrador, on Canada's Atlantic coast. On entry into Canada in 1949, the entire province was known as Newfoundland, but since 1964, the province's... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : Northwest Territories |
06 Jun 2006 |
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The Northwest Territories (NWT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory of Canada.
Located in northern Canada, it is east of Yukon, west and south of Nunavut (Canada's two other territories), and north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. It has an area of 1,171,918 square kilometres and a population of 42,944 as of January 1, 2005. Its capital has been Yellowknife since... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : Nunavut |
06 Jun 2006 |
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Nunavut is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada; it was separated officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries were established in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada's map since the incorporation of the new province of Newfoundland (including... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : Ontario |
06 Jun 2006 |
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Ontario is the most populous and second-largest in area of Canada's ten provinces. It is found in east-central Canada. Its capital is Toronto. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is also located in Ontario. As of July 1, 2005 there are 12,541,410 Ontarians (residents of Ontario), representing approximately 37.9% of the total Canadian population and an area of 1,076,395 km² (415,598 sq. mi.). ... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : Ottawa |
08 Jun 2006 |
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Ottawa, Ontario, is the capital of Canada, and the country's fourth largest city.
It is located in the Ottawa Valley on the eastern edge of the province of Ontario, right at the border with Quebec, about 400 km (250 miles) east of Toronto and 190 km (120 miles) west of Montreal. It is a city on the banks of the Ottawa River, a major waterway that forms the border between the two provinces. Unlike... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : Prince Edward Island |
06 Jun 2006 |
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Prince Edward Island (simply PEI or P.E.I.; French, l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Scottish Gaelic, Eilean a’ Phrionns or Eilean Eòin) is a Canadian province and part of the Maritimes. It is the nation's smallest province in terms of both size and population, but it has the highest population density of all Canadian provinces at 24.47 persons per square kilometre. The population of PEI is 137,800. People... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : Québec |
06 Jun 2006 |
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Quebec (pronounced [kwəˈbɛk] or [kəˈbɛk]) (French: Québec, pronounced [kebɛk]) is the largest province in Canada (in terms of area) and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,598,100 (Statistics Canada, July 2005). This represents about 24% of the Canadian population. Quebec's official language is French; it is the only Canadian province where English is not an official language.... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : Saskatchewan |
06 Jun 2006 |
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Saskatchewan is the middle province of Canada's three prairie provinces. It has an area of 651,900 km² (251,700 mi²) and a population of 992,995 (Saskatchewanians) (October 1, 2005). Most of its population lives in the southern part of the province. The largest city is Saskatoon with a metropolitan population of 235,800 (July 1, 2005), followed by the province's capital, Regina (metro population:... |
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| Administrative-territorial division : The Yukon |
06 Jun 2006 |
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Yukon or Yukon Territory or (often) the Yukon is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest. It has a population of about 31,000, and its capital is Whitehorse, with a population of 23,272. People from Yukon are known as Yukoners.
The territory is named after the Yukon River, which means "great river" in Gwich'in. ... |
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