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Vocabulary
World Geography Ch. 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| inuit | "eskimos" |
| provinces | political units of Canada |
| Dominion of Canada | loose confederation of Ontario, Quebec, Navasota, and Brunswick, created by British N.A. Act |
| confederation | political union |
| parlimentary | system where legislative and executive are combined |
| parliment | the law making body in a parliamentary government |
| prime minister | the head of the government in Canada |
| First Nation's | Canada's native American people |
| Newsprint | paper made of pulp |
| NAFTA | trade union between America and Canada, U.S. and Mexico |
| Me'tis | people of mix French, Native |
| bilingual | someone that speaks 2 language |
| reserves | public land set aside |
| ships of the desert | cammel's |
| Atlantic provinces | Prince Edward Island |
| New Scotland | Nova scotia, expelled about 4000 descendants |
| Quebec | Canada's core province |
| Ontorio | Canada's core province |
| Prairie Provinces | Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta |
| British Columbia | Canada's most west province |
| Nunavent | 1 of Canada's territories' and home to many of Canada's Inuit "eskimos" |