Song and video produced by Julia Bentley and Andrew Gunadie
Turn on Closed Captioning for lyrics.
Canada (
/ˈkænədə/) 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. It is the world's second largest
country by total area. Canada's
common border with the
United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world. The land that is now Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of
Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century,
British and
French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of
its colonies in North America in 1763 after the
Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three
British North American colonies through
Confederation, Canada was formed as a
federal dominion of four provinces. This began an
accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the
United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the
Statute of Westminster of 1931 and culminated in the
Canada Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the
British parliament.
Canada is a
federation that is governed as a
parliamentary democracy and a
constitutional monarchy with
Queen Elizabeth II as its
head of state. It is a
bilingual nation with both
English and
French as official languages at the federal level. One of the world's
highly developed countries, Canada has a diversified economy that is reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade—particularly with the United States, with which Canada has had a
long and complex relationship. It is a member of the
G8,
G-20,
NATO,
OECD,
WTO,
Commonwealth,
Francophonie,
OAS,
APEC, and
UN.
My Canada starts in Muskoka:
Can you spot my wife, Lynn and I in the above video @ 0:20 seconds?
Official video for "Oh Canada", from Classified's 2009 album 'Self Explanatory
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