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The history of the English language in Canada "We've had access to American know-how, British political wisdom and French culture. We've ended up with British know-how, French political wisdom and American culture.” This is a quote from an essay found on time.com named “CANADA DISCOVERS ITSELF” that pretty much explains Canada. History: Canada started out as a place for aboriginal peoples, and has later on evolved from a group of French and British colonies into a multicultural and speaking country, Canada is still being formed by immigration.

Politics: Canada is a monarchy where the head of state is Elizabeth the second, Elizabeth the second is both queen of the UK and Canada which probably means that some of the laws are similar between these two countries

Geography: Canada is located in the northern section of North America and is the second largest country in the world. It shares the longest border with USA. The north part of Canada is an area of rock scoured clean by the last ice age; it also contains a lot of lakes and rivers. In fact Canada has more lakes and rivers than any other country, making it a great source of world’s freshest water. Northwestern Canada is a beautiful nature part of Canada which is home to the Virginia falls; Virginia falls is twice as big as Niagara Falls. Canada is also geologically active, meaning that they have earthquakes and potentially active volcanoes. The last time a volcano erupted was in 1775 and caused a catastrophic disaster, with 2,000 deaths.

Culture: The culture of Canada has been influenced by several things, English and French culture from the colonization and America because of the long border they share. Canada is very multicultural and gets traditions from all over the world. The national sport is Hockey which is not so weird considering the oral histories says that a hockey like game was played in Canada for many years ago. But the sport as everything else in Canada was immigrated through Europe, when Irish immigrants brought hurling which basically hockey without ice and skates.

Immigration: Canada is a land build by immigrants, mostly from England and French. The First European immigration came from the colonization of Canada in 1605, which were led by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain. Later on the English came to Canada and colonized to the south. Since the English and the French where first to immigrate and “create” Canada, these are the two official languages of Canada. Canada has also a lot of none official languages. Biggest of those were China with 1,012,065 first-language speakers. This comes from the making of the pacific railway from 1881 to 1884, Canada needed a railway that would go from one side of the country to the other and hired 17000 Chinese men to work as laborers. The Chinese worked for as little as 1$ a day, and still had to pay for their own food and shelter.

Similarities between Canada and the UK

Culture:
The UK has given several countries culture through the British Empire, including Canada which is probably where Canada has gotten their English speaking citizens. Both Canada and UK is monarchy and has the same Queen. Sources:

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