Canada

 Canada was inhabited by Asian who arrived on foot through the Strait of Bering, once a dry land and these people were called the "First Nations" like Iroquouis, Métis and Innuit and they hunted animals, fished, cultivated the land and later traded with furs with Europeans like Leif Ericson a Norse explorer, John Cabot an English explorer sent by king Henry VII settled in Cape Breton and the French king Francis I sent Jacques Cartier found Prince Edward Island, later French explorer Samuel de Champlain established Quebec and more colonies in New France. More Europeans arrived to trade for the fur and fish establishing the Hudson Bay Trading Post in 1670, but French and British wanted to control all the land so the Seven Years´ War started in 1756 finishing with the defeat of the French, after the American Independence many colonists loyal to England seek refuge in Canada. The colonies signed an agreement on 1st July, 1867 uniting Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario in a dominion of the British empire but in 1931 Canada became an independent country with the British monarch as their soverign till today though there are many regions which preserve their French language and culture despite the huge number of immigrants Canada receives every year. Canada has ten provinces and is surrounded by the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Seas and its the second biggest country in the world but more than eighty per cent of its land in uninhabitable due to extreme cold climate and its geography has natural landmarks as the Great Lakes and Niagara Fall, the Rocky mountains where you can see grizzly bears, black foxes, mooses, buffaloes in the plains and the glaciers, polar bears and aurora borealis near the Arctic Circle.

Canada has received many immigrants to find their fortune due to its resources in gold, oil, natural gas, zinc and nickel. There are many legends like the legend of the eight lumberjacks who made a pact with the devil to come back to their wives at night in a flying canoe which wander through the forests till today or in the Okanagan lake it is believed the home of a huge strange creature named Ogopogo because many people claim to have seen it. Emblems of Canada like the flag designed in 1964 by a professor from the red and white official Canadian colours decided since the the proclamation of the Royal Arms in 1921 by King George V and the maple leaf, the beavers because of their fur trade though today they are protected and used in agriculture to build dams in rivers avoiding floods and Mounties which are the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with their redcoats and stetson hats. Sports such as basketball, ice hockey, Canadian football and lacrosse were invented in Canada. Gastronomy is a mixture of Native meals such as maple syrup or inspired such as the beaver tail a fried pastry with cinnamon and other sweet toppings or from French culture like poutine though others are typically local like the Nanaimo bars from Vancouver. Canadians like to celebrate with festivals like the Montreal Fireworks, the Winterlude Festival all ice slides, rinks, sculptures and decorations of ice in Ottawa, the International Balloon Festival in Quebec and the Calgary Stampede in July with cowboys rodeos, live music, acrobats, barrel racing, horse rides and more and there are more local celebraions related to the history of the biggest cities like Toronto. Mississauga, Winnipeg and more. Canadian celebrities such as singers Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Neil Young, Shawn Mendes, Avril Lavigne, Alanis Morissette, Drake, Nelly Furtado and Celine Dion and actors like Ryan Gosling, Keanu Reeves, Pamela Anderson and others and remains a country

welcoming people to study, work and live.