Extra 2 Eastern 3 Quiz Tick (✔) the correct answer. 1 How many inhabitants live in the six 8 Which First Nation tribe lives in eastern provinces of eastern Canada? Canada? Canada 12.5 million 22 million 32 million Sioux Iroquois Cheyenne 2 How long does it take to fly from 9 How many official languages are there St John’s, Newfoundland to Toronto? in Canada? 1 What do you know? 1 hour 3 hours 5 hours one two three In the eastern part of Canada there are six provinces – Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 3 The capital of Canada is 10 In Quebec what percentage of the population Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland & Labrador. Toronto Ottawa Montreal count French as their mother tongue? Talk in class. Do you know anything about these provinces? Look at the photos on these two pages. 34% 50% 85% 4 Over a quarter of the people of which Do they remind you of anything you know or have read about? What do you know about the other parts provincequiz were born outside of Canada? 11 In the 1995 referendum in Quebec of Canada? Nova Scotia Quebec Ontario how many people voted for an independent 2 A TV programme French-speaking Quebec? N 5 After the British and the French, which EWF 35.5% 49.4% 50.6% & OU is the largest minority group? 49 You’ll hear three people discussing LA ND B L R A A D N 12 What is the most popular sport? a TV programme on eastern Canada. They O the Germans the Italians the Chinese R D mention the things shown in the photos. basketball ice hockey lacrosse 6 In southern Quebec temperatures drop Listen and note down what below –20°c they say about these topics. Hudson Bay about once every five years Mennonites in Ontario Compare in class. St John’s every winter in the spring What do you now C E 7 The Inuit don’t like being called “Eskimo” know about eastern B awrence O N T E t.L R A R S ive which means Canada that you I O U r PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND didn’t know before? Q seal hunter igloo builder What did you find Cape Breton Island eater of raw meat Lake Superior Fredericton Quebec particularly NOVA SCOTIA NEW interesting? Tell the BRUNSWICK Halifax Montreal y class. d n u Ottawa F f o y Toronto a Lake Ontario B Kitchener Niagara Falls Lake Michigan Lake Huron Compare your answers with a Lake Erie partner. I think ... It’s definitely ... Yes, you’re right. Oh I’m afraid I don’t agree with you there. 49 Now listen to the conversation from activity 2 again and check your answers in the Key. Pow-wow of the Chippewas of Sarnia First Nation, Ontario p. 80 62 sixty-two sixty-three 63 Extra 2 4 Special feature: bear. For the more urban at heart syrup – in spring and burst into New Brunswick where people in costume there’s Toronto, the financial and wonderful colours in autumn re-enact everyday life from the Eastern Canada Capital: Fredericton commercial centre of Canada, and, like Ontario there are endless Population: 758,000 past. The landscape is Imagine you’re going to spend a with its fine art museums, luxury forests and numerous lakes where Canada’s largest Atlantic province spectacular and varied. There Work in groups of three. long holiday in the eastern part stores and cafes, and elegant people can enjoy the outdoor life is bilingual and French-speaking are dramatic cliffs, picturesque Compare your order and say of Canada. Read about the six Ottawa with its mix of historic – hiking, canoeing, skiing, snow- Acadians (17th century French bays, long peaceful beaches, why you ordered them as you provinces and order them accor- and modern buildings. shoeing and ice-fishing. settlers) make up almost 35% of white-wooded houses and did. Then tell each other which ding to how much you’d like to the population. Their culture is lighthouses. Forests cover a large province you would most / least visit them. Put a number one Quebec Prince Edward Island alive wherever you go and you part of the province but in the like to live in if you emigrated to next to the province you would Capital: Quebec City Capital: Charlottetown can enjoy Acadian music, cuisine north there are green pastures Canada and why. Would your Population: 7,529,100 Population: 141,900 most like to visit and so on. and old crafts at their many and in the west on Cape Breton order be the same as if you Quebec is an island of French Canada’s smallest province is Island breathtaking mountain summer festivals. The coast of were spending a holiday there? in a sea of North American often called Canada’s Denmark New Brunswick is well worth a scenery and wild moors. Ontario English and its culture, language, and with its gently rolling hills, visit. In the north there are quiet 5 Over to you Capital: Toronto music and way of life are unique. white sandy beaches, sleepy bays and long, sandy beaches Newfoundland & Labrador Population: 12,419,600 The heart of French Canada is towns and quiet pace of life it is and the water temperatures are Capital: St John’s Work in small groups. Ontario means “glittering water” Quebec City, which is Parisian in one of Canada’s most relaxing the warmest to be found north of Population: 527,300 1 Think of the country you live in the language of the Iroquois atmosphere and almost entirely provinces. Even the weather is Florida. In the south, the Bay If you want to get away from it in. Tell each other something and water covers one-sixth of the French-speaking. It is also home gentler with winter temperatures of Fundy attracts summer visitors all, this is the place to come. It is about other regions that province. It is home to the Great to the largest winter carnival in of around –3 to –11. Most of the who come to see tides of nearly the wildest and most isolated of you have been to or know lakes, Hudson bay, Niagara Falls, the world where people come to population is rural, living in 15 metres, the highest in the something about. the most popular tourist attraction watch canoe races in the icy farming communities or in the world. in Canada, and to thousands of St Lawrence River and to admire many small picturesque fishing lakes and rivers where canoeists the magnificent ice sculptures. villages along the coast where and anglers can enjoy the peace Quebec is well known for its there is a successful lobster and quiet and get the chance to maple trees which give up their industry. Tourists come here to see beavers, moose or even a most famous product – maple enjoy the cycling and fishing but also to play golf on some of Canada’s best golf courses. Indian summer 2 If you wanted to make a Point Prim lighthouse programme to show life in on tip of Digby, Nova Scotia your country for Canadian TV what aspects would you Nova Scotia the eastern provinces. It also has include? Decide on a list of Capital: Halifax some of the most dramatic things in your groups and Population: 948,400 scenery – steep cliffs, fjords, wild then compare in class. Nova Scotia is Latin for New moors and endless forests, home Why don’t we …? Scotland and although the Scots to caribous, moose and black What about …? are now a minority, Scottish bears. From the coast you can see We could …? culture with its Highland dancing huge icebergs and whales I think we and traditional music of the swimming in the bays. It also has should ... bagpipes has survived. The the wildest climate. St John’s, the province is also famous for its provincial capital, is the foggiest, historic towns and villages and snowiest, wettest, windiest and for its living-history museums cloudiest in the whole of Canada. 64 sixty-four Winter carnival in Quebec city sixty-five 65.