Our northern neighbor is made up of ten provinces and three territories. Canada has six different physicalimmigrantsreservesNative AmericanlanguagesSelect your answer regions that are quite diverse, from fertile farmlands to rugged mountains. The largest region is the immigrantsQuebecCanadian ShieldSamuel de ChamplainNative AmericanSelect your answer, which was carved out by glaciers. Most people live in the Great Lakes--St. Lawrence Lowlands, where the climate is mild and the soil is fertile.

The colony of New France in the present-day Great Lakes-- St. Lawrence Lowlands was founded by Native AmericanFrench and Indian WarQuebecSamuel de ChamplainNunavutSelect your answer in 1608. As a result of the Canadian ShieldphysicalimmigrantsNunavutFrench and Indian WarSelect your answer, France lost all of its Canadian land to Britain. In 1791, the Great Lakes-- St. Lawrence region was divided into two colonies: French and Indian WarNative AmericanCanadian ShieldQuebecreservesSelect your answer, which was mostly French, and Ontario, which was mostly English. Britain allowed the Canadian colonies to become provinces in 1838 and approved the Constitution Act in 1867. In 1999, NunavutSamuel de ChamplainFrench and Indian WarNative AmericanimmigrantsSelect your answer became the newest Canadian territory.

Today, Canada has a population of about 30 million people. It is nation of reservesphysicalNative AmericanimmigrantslanguagesSelect your answer, coming mostly from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The first people in Canada were Native AmericanlanguagesNunavutQuebecreservesimmigrantsSelect your answer groups such as the Inuit and the Cree. There are ten major Native American groups in Canada; most live on physicalreservesFrench and Indian WarNunavutimmigrantsSelect your answer. In the 1960s, tensions arose between the two largest ethnic groups, the English-speaking Canadians and the French Canadians. In 1982, changes were made in the Canadian Constitution to make English and French the two official immigrantsNunavutlanguagesNative AmericanreservesSelect your answer of Canada.