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Canada - A Quick Geography Lesson

10/22/2019

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In my last post I mentioned that I was still debating how to fairly split up Canada into regions for my journey - this is, after all, the fourth largest country in the world!

The country itself is split up into thirteen political regions - ten provinces and three territories - which form the overall Commonwealth of Canada, in a similar vein to Australia. However, thirteen is no small amount, and as with Russian, US and China I have instead decided to use the five regions, essentially blocks of provinces, that Canada is often divided into, geographically, culturally and politically - rather than the smaller and more numerous states.

These are broadly, from the east to the west; British Columbia, the Prairie Provinces, the vast North - the greatest landlass of the five regions but the lowest populated, largely by indigenous Canadian - first nations, Inuit and Metis. Then comes Ontario, the franophone Quebec, and finally the Atlantic Provinces. I have landed in Vancouver courtesy of Douglas Copeland's 'The Gum Thief' (review soon) and shall zig-zag across Canada's regions - stopping off twice in the largest regions - the Prairie Provinces (Saskatchewan and Alberta) and the North (Northwest Territories and then, as a final stop; Nunavet; which will take me neatly near to the coast of Greenland as I leave Canada). Make sense? If not, don't worry, take a look at the map below, sit back, and just enjoy the journey....
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