PACIFIC PROVINCES & TERRITORIES

ECONOMIC

INDUSTRIES

• Forestry
• Mining (gold, diamonds and coal)
• Tourism
• Fishing
• Seaport ( Vancouver )
• Hunting
• Manufacturing goods, Import

FARMING

• Feedlots
• Greenhouses
• Mushroom houses
• Nurseries
• Christmas trees
• Sod
• Maple syrup
• Fruits
• Vegetables

RANCHING

• Beekeeping & poultry natchery
• Bison
• Deer
• Elk
• Llama
• Alpaca
• Wild boars
• Fur/game

SOICAL

POPULATION

• 100,000
• Over a third of Canada's land mass
• Despite the fact that is is absolutely huge, it is very unpopulated due to weather conditions

RELIGON

• Christianity
• Non - religious

FOUNDING OF THIS REGION

• Most is Eskimo culture
• Migrated from the old land on the land bridge

LANGUAGE

• French
• English
• Aboriginal languages
• Over 11 official languages

POLITICAL

representative democracy

• type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to Direct democracy.

FEDERAL MONARCHY

• A federation of provinces with a single monarch as over-all head of the federation, but retaining different monarchs, or a non-monarchical system of government, in the various provinces joined to the federation.

CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY

• A limited monarchy or parliamentary monarchy is a monarchy in which governing powers of the monarch are restricted by a constitution.
• Elizabeth II has been the ruler of Canada since 1952, she is 90 years of age.

Parliamentary system

• A system of democratic governance of a state where the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from the legislature and is also held accountable to that legislature.

ENVIRONMENT

LARGE CITIES

• Whitehorse, Yukon
• Yellowknife, Northwest Territory
• Iqaluit, Nunavut
• Victoria, British Columbia

VEGETATION/LANDFORMAS

• Large Forests - not many trees
• Shrubs - small
• Tundra
• Flats
• Dry grassland
• Mountains
• Rivers
• Lakes

CLIMATE

• Subartic
• Cold
• Mild rainge
• Oceanic
• Extremely/very cold
• Dry

TRANSPORTATION

• Roads : 647,700 mile road called the trans-Canadian highway
• Rail : 44,870 miles of freight and passenger rail, links to 48 US states (none to Alaska)
• Waterway : Vancouver (largest port), harbors and canals

TRANSPORTATION PT.2

• Air transportation : helicopter
• The Canadian air transportation security authority is a system that was created in 2002 (April 1st) to control air traffic