About sports

Canada's official national sports are ice hockey and lacrossse. Hockey is a national pastime and popular spectator sport in the country. Other popular spectator sports include curling and football; the latter is played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL). 


Golf, baseball. skiing, soccer, cricket, volleyball, rugby league and baseball are widely played at youth and amateur levels, but professional leagues and franchises are not widespread.

Canada has hosted several high profile international sporting events, incluiding the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, the 1944 Basketball World Championship and the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Canada was the host nation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia.

Canadian Cuisine....

The favorite foods of Canadians vary slightly from region to region, and are strongly influenced by their family heritage, especially in relation to holiday celebrations. Along the Atlantic coast, seafood and dishes derived from English traditions (except in Quebec) are common.

In Quebec, favorite foods come from the area’s French heritage. Throughout Canada, maple syrup and maple products are popular, reflecting the significance of the maple tree, whose leaf adorns the flag of Canada. Many families enjoy a visit in early spring to a maple sugar “shack”, the special rustic building where sap from maple trees is boiled in a large open pan to make maple syrup.

Later in the spring, many people in Eastern Canada visit a wooded area to harvest fiddleheads. Fiddleheads, named because they look like the coiled end of a violin, are the tasty new sprouts of woodland ferns, picked before they develop into large lacy fronds. They are a fragile spring specialty, usually available for just a few weeks in the spring. Grocery stores in Canada may stock frozen fiddleheads alongside other frozen vegetables.

Dishes:

Sautéed Fiddleheads

Canadian bacon with Maple Glaze

Sweet Corn Pancakes

 

Actors and Actrisses ...

A. J. Cokk

A. J. Cokk has been entertaining audiences from an early age. She began her entertainment career in her hometown, Oshawa, Ontario, as a competitive dancer and dance teacher.

A.J. ‘S acting career began when she was 17 years old. Her first major role was in “The Virgen suicides”. Since then, this beautiful starlet has taken Hollywood by storm, starring in films such as "Final Destination 2”, "Misconceptions" and "The house next door", as well as several guest star appearances on T.V like "Higher Ground".Her most recently appearance is in "Criminal Minds". 

Alan Thicke


Actor, writer, producer, composer. Alan Willis Jeffrey was born on March 1, 1947, in Kirkiland lake, Ontario.


He got his star in show as a writer for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. During the mid-1980's to early 1990's he played one of the most beloved sitcom dads: the psychiatrist Jason Seaver on "Growing pains". He has taken part in movies like: "I'm in the band", "RoboDoc" and "A little Light". 

Alison Pill

Alison Courtney Pill was born on November 27, 1985. It is a Canadian film and theatre actress. Her first starring was in "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen". She is best known from her roles in "Milk", "Scott Pilgrim vs The World" and "Midnight in Paris".

Roles in T.V : "CSI", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", "The Newsroom".

Caroline Rhea

Caroline Gilchrist Rhea was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She is a stand-up comedian, actress, and the former host of talk show “The Caroline Rhea Show”. 

Actress: "Christmas with the Kranks", T.V. "Sabrina the Teenage witch", "Phineas and Ferb" (voice of Linda Flyn), "The suite life of Zack and Cody"


Comedy: MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour, "Coming Strip Live" and "Caroline's Comedy Hour".

Dan Aykroyd

Is an Academy Award-nominated Ottawa comedian, actor, screenwriter and musician.

He was an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live", "Ghostbusters", "Unconditional Love" an originator of the "Blues Brothers". He has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.

About it’s Traditions ....

Quebec Winter Carnival

The Quebec Winter Carnival

It is a joyous holiday celebrated in the harsh winter of Quebec, whose origins can be traced to 1894, where it served as an escape from everyday reality of the people, in that year there was an economic crisis in the country. However, it was not until 1955 when it was celebrated as an official event that occurs periodically in February of each year.

It is famous for its organization around sporting events specific to that time of the year, such as ice skating, competitions, racing sled dogs, and a canoe race on the river.

In addition, there can also be seen the famous statues of ice, or snow slides. At night, the visitor can pass through the snowy streets and decorated for the occasion. The city is very lively during the Carnival, and full of laughter, music, dances, parades and, of course, a variety of costumes.

Montreal Jazz Festival

The Montreal Jazz Festival

Each year in late June, the Canadian city of Montreal is home of one of the most important jazz festivals worldwide.

All currents and trends of jazz, from the purest to the last innovations are received, and the festival often presents the best artists. In addition, although the main thing is jazz, it also includes carrying some blues, gospel, rock, pop and even salsa.

The Calgary Stampede

The city of Calgary is especially famous for its rodeo festival, which amounts to a kind of tribute to the culture of the Old West, and is held every year in July, bringing together hundreds of thousands of tourists and visitors, as well as participants in its various activities full of cowboy spirit.

Calgary parade

Places you can't miss to visit...


Alberta

Camping in Lake Rock

National Park Lakes Waterton

In Alberta, your choice of fun and adventure are as wide as the prairie and sky. Cross-country skiing on soft feathers of snow in the magnificent Rocky Mountains. Drink a chilled martini on the shores of Lake Louise, sees the ice sculptors and function of the Snow Queen for the annual Ice Magic Festival. Put your fingers around a warm mug of hot chocolate. Share a story of cowboys with local friends. Discover the wonders of Dinosaur Provincial Park in the Badlands, a World Heritage Site, where dinosaur tracks were found in rust, gold and 


bronze pillars and pinnacles of lunar rock. Or drive along the spectacular Icefields Parkway, which runs 142 miles from Banff to Jasper, capturing views on the route, black bears, caribou and endangered. Back in Calgary, the Calgary Stampede begins  with a complimentary breakfast of pancakes and front row seats for the parade. Rodeos and fairs are still very popular throughout Alberta even as cattle drovers and kitchens in camps and fires, the most striking is the rich cultural centers in Calgary and Edmonton have become central to wine and dine. Shopping is a sport for all seasons in the center of Calgary through the covered bridge Plus 15, and it's always time to play at West Edmonton Mall Here are a cosmopolitan mix and denim: put on your hat and greets the New West.

                                             Breathtaking Landscapes in Alberta






Nova Scotia




Halifax at night, the provincial capital



Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province of the four in Atlantic Canada and the second-most-densely populated province in Canada.

                                                                            

The province's mainland is the Nova Scotia peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries. Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks. 

  

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

You can also vist

*Interesting museums: Glooscap Heritage Centre, Grand-Pré National Historic Site, Cape Breton Miners' Museum, and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

*National Historic Sites. The most notable are the Habitation at Port-Royal, the Fortress of Louisbourg and Citadel Hill (Fort George) in Halifax.

*Nova Scotia has two national parks, Kejimkujik and Cape Breton Highlands, and many other protected areas. Come and visit The Bay of Fundy, the highest tidal range in the world, and the iconic Peggy's Cove.

Quebec

 
Ride on a horse drawn carriage, walk down old alleys and thunder fingrs at the rhythm of the jaz festival, eat and much more..

Walk the streets of Old Montreal, throw your scarf with the aplmb of a Québec. Practice your french phrases , like "bonjur" ordering caf au lait a sidewalk bistro. Also you can not go without absorbing some of th style in this glamorous city.

Montreal, th biggest city in Montreal

  

The food defines much of this extraodinary French- Canadian culture of Quebec. Try a maple taffy in snow, or a traditional dinner of pea soup, a pie tourtiere and sugar, in the romantic sugar shack. Take the path culinary field in the famous La Route des Saveurs de Charlevoix and try more...

Montmorency´s waterfall

Go four centuries back as you walk the cobblestone streets of Quebec city. You can fel the history beating on the wall, but there is a freshn wind blwing through this city of 400 years old. Enjoy celbrations like the Carnaval of Quebec and Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle France, reviving local legends.




Ontario


Here you can visit Niagara falls, located on the Niagara River which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rateateny waterfall in the world. Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America. Niagara falls straddles the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and U.S state of New York, also forming the southern end of the Niagara Gorge.

Niagara falls

Provinces and Territories of Canada

Canada is a federation composed of ten provinces and three territories. In turn, these may be grouped into four main regions: Western Canada, Central Canada, Atlantic Canada, Northern Canada and "las praderas".



TEN PROVIDENCES





 REGIONS



A Bridge Between Cultures

Hey! Welcome to our  blog...

Here your going to find many information about Canada, you want to travel there? So check this out!!

We are in Mexico, Puebla exactly, we are UPAEP students of medicine, our names are Lilia,Karla and Larisa and we are presenting this project for our english conversation class, with teacher Gil.

We also intent to create a bridge between Canada and Mexico!

We hope you enjoy all this information of culture, history, etc...

Lilia

Karla

Larisa

An Introduction...

The name Canada comes from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata, meaning "village" or "settlement". Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the legal name for the new country, and the word Dominion was conferred as the country's title.

Also is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the world's longest land border.

Canada is a federal state governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state.

The country is officially bilingual at the federal level. As of 2011, it has a population of approximately 33.4 million.

Canada's economy is one of the world's largest and is reliant upon its natural resources and trade, particularly with the United States with which it also has a long and complex relationship.

It is a member of the G7, G8, G20, NATO, OECD, WTO, Commonwealth of Nations, Francophonie, OAS, APEC, and United Nations.



Canada's Flag.

 Here's a video where you can see Quebec a little bit closer: