Invitation

We invite you to know the wonderful country Canada. Its culture, interesting places and its opportunities to work and study.

Topics about this country: Culture (music, food, languages), interesting places and opportunities for study, work and live.

Our presentation is in October 26th of 2009.

The evaluation of this activity will be questions about our presentation.

Canadian Tourism Attractions

Canada has many places to discover, especially its natural hetirage and its more than two million lakes in the territory. British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and Ontario have many ski areas in the winter. In summer, one of the most espectaculars is the festival of hot air balloms. In Terranova is located in Newfoundland Labrador attracts many tourists because of its icebergs and fiords and also its can see whales and marine birds. Perhaps the most important tourism attractive is the Niagara falls in the province of Ontario, in the border with the USA, in this place have platforms where the visitants have a spectacular views upon the falls. In the province of British Columbia is Stanley Park, the park attracts an estimated eight million visitors every year, including locals and tourists, who come for its recreational facilities and its natural attributes

Economy

International rankings

Organization	Survey	Ranking
State of World Liberty Project	State of World Liberty Index[172]	3 out of 159
United Nations Development Programme	Human Development Index	3 out of 180
A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine	Globalization Index 2007	8 out of 72
IMD International	World Competitiveness Yearbook 2008	8 out of 55
World Bank	Ease of Doing Business 2009	8 out of 181
The Economist	The World in 2005 – Worldwide quality-of-life index, 2005	14 out of 111
Yale University/Columbia University	Environmental Sustainability Index, 2005 (pdf)	6 out of 146
Reporters Without Borders Worldwide	Press Freedom Index 2008	13 out of 173
Transparency International	Corruption Perceptions Index 2008	9 out of 180
Heritage Foundation/The Wall Street Journal	Index of Economic Freedom, 2008	7 out of 157
The Economist	Global Peace Index	11 out of 140
Fund for Peace/ForeignPolicy.com	Failed States Index, 2007	168 out of 177[173]
World Economic Forum	Soundness of banks (2008-2009)	1 out of 134[174]
The Economist	Democracy Index	11 out of 167

Etymology

The world Canada means "village" or "settlement".

From the early 17th century onwards, that part of New France that lay along the Saint Lawrence River and the northern shores of the Great Lakes was named Canada, an area that was later split into two British colonies, Upper Canada and Lower Canada, until their re-unification as the Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name canada was adopted as the legal name for the new Country, and Dominion was confered as the country'title; combined, the term Dominion of Canada was in common usage until the 1950s. Thereafter, as Canada asserted its political autonomy from Britain, the federal government increasingly used simply Canada on state doc uments and treaties, a change that was reflected in the renaming of the national holiday from Dominion Day to Canada Day in 1982.

Holidays and Celebrations

The Winter Carnival in Quebec City, that is celebrated between February and March, it is famous for its parades, dances and music, as well as ice sculptures and snow.
In February they celebrate Ottawa Winterlude, a celebration in honor of the snow, and finally The Montreal Jazz Festival in June, and the International Jazz Festival Ottawa in the next month.

Date	Name	Name local (inglés y francés)	Notas
January 1	New Year	New Year's Day or Nouvel an
July 1	Canada Day	Canada Fête du Canada	Day or Independence Day in the country. Day of the Confederacy.
May 25	Holiday of the Queen	Victoria Day or Fête de la Reine	The Queen's official birthday in Canada.
The first Monday in September	Labor Day	Labor Day or fête du travail
The second Monday in October	Day Action of Grâces	Thanksgiving o Action de grâces	Thanksgiving for the harvest of autumn.
December 25	Christmas	Christmas o Noël
December 26	Day after Christmas.	Boxing Day or lendemain de Noël.lendemain de Noël	Day in which keep boxes of gifts.