The Canadian Shield is a large craton in eastern and central Canada and adjacent portions of the United States, composed of bare rock dating to the Precambrian Era (between 4.5 billion and 540 million years ago). It is also called the Precambrian Shield, Laurentian Shield, or Laurentian Plateau. Canadian Shield - Regional extent. Other than the Greenland section, the Shield is approximately circular, with Hudson Bay in the middle. It covers much of Greenland; Labrador; most of Q ...

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• Canadian Shield - Regional extent
• Canadian Shield - Geology
• Canadian Shield - Mining and economics

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Canadian Shield, Canadian Shield - Regional extent, Canadian Shield - Geology, Canadian Shield - Mining and economics

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Other than the Greenland section, the Shield is approximately circular, with Hudson Bay in the middle. It covers much of Greenland; Labrador; most of Quebec north of the St. Lawrence River; much of Ontario outside the southern peninsula between the Great Lakes; the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York; parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; the central portion of Manitoba away from Hudson Bay and the Great Plains; northern Saskatchewan; a small portion of north-eastern Alberta; and the mainland northern Canadian territories to the ...

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Canadian Shield, Canadian Shield - Regional extent, Canadian Shield - Geology, Canadian Shield - Mining and economics

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The Canadian prairies is a vast area of flat sedimentary land that stretches from Ontario and the Canadian Shield to the Canadian Rockies covering much of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta — the Prairie Provinces. The prairies are one of the world's major farming areas. Two of the most important commodities are wheat grown in the southern prairies and beef cattle raised in Alberta. Three grassland types occur in prairie Canada: tallgrass Prairie, mixed prairie and fescue prairie. Each has a un ...

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• Canadian prairies - External link

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Bancroft is a town on the York River in Hastings County in the Canadian province of Ontario. As of 2001, the population was 4,089. In 1996, the population was 4,080 (-0.2% population change). The area of the town was 227.85 square kilometres. Bancroft Ontario - Attractions. Located in Ontario's Haliburton Hills, part of the Canadian Shield, Bancroft is well known in Canada as an excellent location for rockhounding. Bancroft styles itself as the "mineral capital of Canada" and holds an annual event in August ...

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• Bancroft Ontario - Attractions
• Bancroft Ontario - History
• Bancroft Ontario - Airport

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A craton is an old and stable part of the continental crust that has survived the merging and splitting of continents and supercontinents for at least 500 million years. Cratons are generally found in the interiors of continents and are formed of a crust of lightweight felsic igneous rock such as granite attached to a section of the upper mantle. A craton may extend to depth of 200 km. Cratons are subdivided geographically into geologic provinces, each province being classified as an Archon, a Proton or a Tecton according to it ...

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• Archean - External link

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The Canadian Arctic is a vast region of northern Canada. Technically, the term covers that portion of Canada north of the Arctic Circle. An alternate, more practical definition is that portion north of the tree line (a definition that includes Canada's geographical centre): covering most of Nunavut, and the northernmost parts of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Labrador. A political definition, referred to as The North or Northern Canada, consists of Canada's three territorie ...

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• Canadian Arctic - Territoriality
• Canadian Arctic - Topography
• Canadian Arctic - Human geography
• Canadian Arctic - Related topics
• Canadian Arctic - External link

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In heraldry, a compartment is a design placed under the shield, usually rocks, a grassy mount, or some sort of other landscape upon which the supporters are depicted as standing. Care must be taken to distinguish true compartments from items upon which supporters are merely resting one or more feet. It is sometimes said to represent the land held by the bearer. As an official part of the blazon it is a comparatively late feature of heraldry, often derived from the need to have different supporters for different families or entities, although sometimes the compartment is tre ...

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Canadian literature may be divided in two parts, somewhat like a tree with two great roots. One root is the deeply buried culture of France. The other is just as deeply buried in the traditions of England. One part of Canadian literature is written in French, the other in English. But the branches of this tree are purely Canadian. Authors and readers of each literature are gaining more and more ...

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• Canadian literature - Characteristics of Canadian Literature
• Canadian literature - The problem of Canadian literature
• Canadian literature - Traits of Canadian literature
• Canadian literature - French-Canadian literature
• Canadian literature - Notable figures
• Canadian literature - Awards

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The physical geography of Canada is widely varied. Encompassed by the extreme points of Canada, it covers 9,984,670 km² and a panoply of various geoclimatic regions. Canada also encompasses vast maritime territories, with the world's longest coastline of 202,080 km. Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains. Main articles: Appalachian Mountains The Appalachian mountain range extends from Alabama in the southern United States through the Gaspé Peninsula and the Atlantic Provin ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Interior Plains, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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The physical geography of Canada is widely varied. Encompassed by the extreme points of Canada, it covers 9,984,670 km² and a panoply of various geoclimatic regions. Canada also encompasses vast maritime territories, with the world's longest coastline of 202,080 km. Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains. Main articles: Appalachian Mountains The Appalachian mountain range extends from Alabama in the southern United States through the Gaspé Peninsula and the Atlantic Provin ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Prairies, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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Canada is divided into thirteen provinces and territories. According to Statistics Canada, 72.0% of the population is concentrated within 150 km of the nation's southern border with the United States, 70.0% live south of the 49th parallel, and over 60% of the population lives along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River between Windsor, Ontario and Quebec City. This leaves the vast majority of Canada's territory as sparsely populated wilderness; Canada's population density is 3.5 people/km², among the lowest in the world. Despite this, 79.7% of Canada's population resides in ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Interior Plains, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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Canada is divided into thirteen provinces and territories. According to Statistics Canada, 72.0% of the population is concentrated within 150 km of the nation's southern border with the United States, 70.0% live south of the 49th parallel, and over 60% of the population lives along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River between Windsor, Ontario and Quebec City. This leaves the vast majority of Canada's territory as sparsely populated wilderness; Canada's population density is 3.5 people/km², among the lowest in the world. Despite this, 79.7% of Canada's population resides in ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Prairies, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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Canada holds vast reserves of water: 7% of the world's fresh water, a quarter of humid lands and the third largest amount of glaciers (after Antarctica and Greenland). Due to extensive glaciation, Canada hosts more than two million lakes: of those that entirely within Canada, more than 31,000 are between 3 and 100 km2 in area, while 563 are larger than 100 km2. There are 5 main watersheds in Canada: The Arctic watershed, the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Hudson watershed and, due to parts of the Milk River run ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Interior Plains, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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Canada holds vast reserves of water: 7% of the world's fresh water, a quarter of humid lands and the third largest amount of glaciers (after Antarctica and Greenland). Due to extensive glaciation, Canada hosts more than two million lakes: of those that entirely within Canada, more than 31,000 are between 3 and 100 km2 in area, while 563 are larger than 100 km2. There are 5 main watersheds in Canada: The Arctic watershed, the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Hudson watershed and, due to parts of the Milk River run ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Prairies, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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Canadian Shield rock forms the nucleus of the North American continent. Other geological structures assumed positions around or on top of the Shield millions of years after it was formed. The Rocky Mountains are relative newcomers on the geological stage, having risen a mere 60 million years ago. Most Shield rocks were formed well over a billion years earlier, during the very first chapter of the pla ...

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Boreal shield, Boreal shield - Formation, Boreal shield - Plantlife, Boreal shield - Animal life, Boreal shield - Bodies of water, Boreal shield - Changing conditions

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Great Bear Lake lies between two major physiographic regions: the Kazan Uplands portion of the Canadian Shield and the Interior Plains. Originally it was part of preglacial valleys that were reshaped by erosional effects of ice during the Pleistocene. Since then, the lake has undergone various changes resulting from rebound following the melting of the ice. Precambrian rocks of the Canadian Shield form the eastern margin of the McTavish Arm. These rocks of the Precambrian are made up of sedimentary and metamorphic deposits supplemented ...

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Great Bear Lake, Great Bear Lake - Prehistory, Great Bear Lake - Climate

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Canada's abundance of natural resources is reflected in their continued importance in the Economy of Canada. Major resource-based industries are Fisheries, Forestry, Agriculture, Petroleum products and Mining. The fisheries industry has historically been one of Canada's strongest. Unmatched cod stocks on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland launched this industry in the 16th Century. Today these stocks are nearly depleted and their conservation has become a preoccupation of the Maritime provinces. On the West Coast, tuna stocks are now re ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Prairies, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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Canada's abundance of natural resources is reflected in their continued importance in the Economy of Canada. Major resource-based industries are Fisheries, Forestry, Agriculture, Petroleum products and Mining. The fisheries industry has historically been one of Canada's strongest. Unmatched cod stocks on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland launched this industry in the 16th Century. Today these stocks are nearly depleted and their conservation has become a preoccupation of the Maritime provinces. On the West Coast, tuna stocks are now re ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Interior Plains, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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