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The coldest winter temperatures are in the inland and northern parts.


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The Yukon Snag has a measured frost record, —63 degrees.


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[3] The temperature in coastal areas is around 20°C in summer, while in central Canada, the average highest summer temperature is usually around 25-30°C.


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Summer months in the Arctic regions have temperatures not exceeding 15°C.


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There is a lot of rain in coastal areas, on the west coast especially during the winter months.


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Cordilliers cause plenty of orographic rain and in some places along the coast of British Columbia, up to 2500 millimetres of rain per year can fall.


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The rains in the west remain on the Cordillieers, which is why it rains little in prairie areas, rarely exceeding 400 millimeters per year.


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Arctic regions, however, receive even less rain.


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The Great Lakes, Hudson Bay and the Atlantic moisturize eastern parts of Canada, and just off the east coast, it rains more than 1,000 millimetres a year again.


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[3] Vegetation The northern tree line runs from the east bank of Labrador across the Ungava Peninsula southwards along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay and then continues meander northwestward as far as the lower reaches of the Mackenzie River and thereafter on to Alaska.


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There is very little or no fertile soil north of the tree line, and most of the land is tundra.


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Vegetation in the southernmost tundra areas consists of shallow scrub, grass and columnar plants.


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The northernmost parts are shallower, as a tenth of them are covered in moss typical of Arctic wildernesses.


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[9] South of the tree line, from Alaska across the Northern Territories of Canada to Newfoundland, lies one of the largest coniferous areas in the world.


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It consists largely of white and black fir.


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Other trees include balsam fir, banksin pine, and some deciduous trees such as paper birch and wounds.


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[9] In the east, from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast, predominantly mixed forests grow, where sugar maples, American beeches, birches, pines and Canadian hemlocks occur among others.


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The fertile lowlands of the southern border have been covered with deciduous forests before the areas were taken as farmland.


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However, in few forest patches still bloom there, in addition to noble nuts, oaks and elms, American chestnuts, maples and hickories.


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[9] In the mountainous region of the west are spruce trees, douglas fir trees and contortams most widely distributed.


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In addition, aspen and yellow pines grow in the highlands.


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The vegetation of the rainy Pacific coast is dominated by thick and tall douglas fir trees, giant sprouts and hemlocks.


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[9] [10] The prairie areas are too dry other than to grow individual forests.


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Little remains of the original extensive hilly grasslands today, having disappeared almost entirely from beneath the wheat belts known today.


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[11] Fauna The watersheds of the North provide sustenance for whales, walruses, seals and semi-aquatic polar bears.


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Musk oxen, caribou, wolves, naves and lemmings live on the tundra.


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Many migratory birds, such as feeders, ducks, gulls, terns and many other seabirds, also spend the summer in the tundra.


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[9] Forests in the north are suitable habitat for caribou, vapites, lynxes, and black and brown bears.


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Beavers, weasels, muskrats and minks are also, even today, widely the basis of the fur trade.


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There are many vapites in the south, while the more densely populated areas are primarily home to smaller mammals such as grey, red and chipmunks, flies, as well as American otters.


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The very diverse bird world includes cardinals, cherts, eastern grove turpials and naukuku copycats.


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In addition, European birds such as sparrows and starlings have spread to the area.


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Smaller animals such as hares, pocket rats and taper-tailed chickens live in the prairie areas, as well as the last bison and hanka antelopes.


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In the mountains of the west live well adapted animal species such as thick-horned sheep and snow goats.


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[9] Nature Conservancy Canada has 36 national parks and 6 national nature reserves.


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[12] The purpose of the Canadian National Parks System is to protect areas from each of Canada's 39 geographic regions.


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The park has large size differences, as the Saint Lawrence Islands National Park is less than nine square miles wide, compared to nearly 45,000 square miles for Wood Buffalo National Park.


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The best known parks are Banff and Jasper National Parks.


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[13] History Prehistory and discovery The first humans are thought to have arrived in North America during the last ice age over the Beringian land isthmus at the Bering Strait around 30000—12000 years ago.


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About 10,000 years ago, the Paleoinians who migrated after receding ice had colonized the southern parts of Canada.


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[14] The second wave of migration began about 4500 years ago, when the ancestors of the Inuit migrated to the northern parts.


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The first belonged to the Dorset culture, which was supplanted around the year 1000 by the Thule culture.


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[15] Vikings visited the coast of Newfoundland as early as around the year 1000.


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[16] [17] In 1497, John Cabot, a Venetian sailing in English service, came ashore in what he called Newfoundland possibly at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.


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However, it is not certain whether Cabot actually arrived in present-day Newfoundland, Nova Scotia or Maine.


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[18] After Cabot, European fishermen and Portuguese expeditions came to the coast of Newfoundland, among others.


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[19] The most significant expeditions turned out to be the three voyages of the Frenchman Jacques Cartier to the Saint Lawrence River, on which he arrived in 1535.


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[20] Cartier is presumed to have given Canada its name as well.


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[21] As a colony at the end of the 16th century, the English began searching for the Northwest Passage, and Humphrey Gilbert in 1583 declared Newfoundland in the name of Elizabeth I of Newfoundland to be an English-dominated area.


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[22] The French established a colony in 1604, which soon began to be called New France.


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The first stations were abandoned, but in 1608 Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec.


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[23] In 1663 Louis XIV made New France a colony of France.


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[24] The French began to trade fur in a large area.


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The English were interested, too, and in 1670 founded the Hudson's Bay Company.


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Over the next century, French power in the region began to crumble, and under James Wolfe, the English occupied 1759 Quebec and Montreal.


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At the Peace of Paris of 1763, France ceded its Canadian territories to Britain.


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[21] Governor Guy Carleton, among other things, gave the Canadian French the right to their own religion, thereby ensuring the loyalty of the French at the time of the American Revolution.


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After the revolution, some 50,000 loyalists loyal to the British regime fled to Canada from the United States.


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Most of them moved to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.


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The British divided 1784 Canada into two parts: French and Catholic Lower Canada, located in the east, and British and Protestant Upper Canada, located in the west.


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Power remained in both colonies with the English merchant elite, causing opposition, especially in French Lower Canada.


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[25] The War of 1812, was fought between the United States and Britain.


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In it, Canada became a major battleground.


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During the war, the United States attempted to annex Canada to itself, but the war eventually ended in stalemate.


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[26] The Peace of Ghent of 1814 restored the pre-war situation, but it also defines the US-Canada border as far as Lake of the Woods.


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[3] British interest was more directed towards the Napoleonic Wars fought in Europe, following the end of which large-scale migration from Europe to Canada began in November 1815.


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[27] After the War of 1812, the power of the small elite increased, escalating to the revolt that began in 1837 in both colonies.


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Subsequently, the settlements were annexed in 1840 together as a Province of Canada and the creation of the Parliament of Canada, with each of the settlements gaining an equal number of seats.


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[25] Modern Canada came into being when representatives from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Ontario and Quebec shaped the foundation of the nation.


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The constitution was adopted in 1867 and the self-governing confederacy was initially called the Dominion of Canada.


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It immediately began an effort to expand westward, and the government of the first Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald, purchased in 1869 Rupertinland from the Hudson's Bay Company for £300,000.


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[28] Due to the Redriver Rebellion led by Louis Riel, the purchase did not become official until the following year.


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[29] Furthermore, as a result of the rebellion, the Métis were cleaved from the new territory known as the Northwest Territories by the Province of Manitoba.


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British Columbia joined the 1871 dominion due to economic difficulties, and the Canadian Pacific Railway promised to it was completed in 1885.


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[28] The 20th century and the period of independence Partly thanks to the railroad, immigration to Canada surged at the end of the 19th century, and during the years 1885—1914 some 4.5 million people came to Canada.


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[30] Many migrated to the Prairies region, and two new provinces, Saskatchewan and Alberta, were detached from the Northwest Territories in 1905 to them.


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[3] Canada was involved in World War I as part of the British Empire.


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In the early years of the war, more than 300,000 volunteers went to war, but in 1917 conscription was introduced in the country, which clamped down on Quebecians in particular.


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After the war, William Lyon Mackenzie King began pushing for Canadian independence, and in 1919 Canada became a member of the League of Nations.


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Canada became independent in 1931 when the British Parliament passed the Westminster Act.


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Britain was still left with the right to interfere with Canada's constitution.


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[30] Canada, and especially its prairie provinces, was badly hit by the depression of the 1930s.


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In World War II, Canada participated as an independent state and declared war on Nazi Germany on 10 September 1939.


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More than a million Canadians participated in the war, and their contribution was particularly large in the battle for the Atlantic.


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[3] After the war, Canada actively pushed for the establishment of the United Nations.


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[31] Canada was one of 50 signatories to the UN Charter in 1945.


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[32] Canada also played a key role in the establishment of NATO, [33] and the country's foreign minister, Lester B. Pearson, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after proposing the creation of a UN peacekeeping force at the time of the Suez Crisis.


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[34] Canada has continued to be actively involved in UN peacekeeping operations.


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[3] An independence movement began to flourish in Quebec in the 1960s, and the terror of the Quebec Liberation Army peaked in 1970 when Minister of Labor Pierre Laporte was abducted and killed.


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Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau drove a policy of bilingualism, but the Parti Québécois (PQ), who came to power in Quebec, advocated independence for the province and weakened the status of the English language.


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The PQ held a referendum on independence in 1980 in the province, but the resignation was opposed by 59% of voters.


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[35] Trudeau pushed an amendment to the constitution after the vote that defined Canada as a multicultural and bilingual entity.


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At the same time, the constitution removed the last administrative ties with Britain.


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[36] Prime Minister Brian Mulroney attempted to fix the federal and Quebec intervals with two draft agreements, but each was rejected.


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In 1995, a new referendum was held in Quebec, in which opponents of secession won a narrow majority of 50.6% of the vote.


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[37] At the same time, relations between the Federals and the indigenous population also escalated, and one policeman was killed in the Oka conflict.


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The disputes mostly related to land ownership issues, on the basis of which the Territory of Nunavut was also created.


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[38] Canada, the United States and Mexico established the 1992 NAFTA Free Trade Agreement.


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Although Canada-US economic relations have been close, the policy between the two countries was nevertheless rubbed by the decision of Jean Chrétien's administration to exclude Canada from the Iraq War.


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[39] The Liberal Party lost its leadership position when, in November 2005, Paul Martin's government received a vote of no confidence due to a corruption scandal.


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Stephen Harper then rose to become Prime Minister.


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[3] Under Harper, the Province of Quebec was given nation status by Parliament.


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[40] From the recession that began in 2008, Canada outpaced the other G8 countries.


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[3] In December 2011, Canada broke away as the first state from the Kyoto Protocol.


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[41] Politics Political system Canada is a constitutional monarchy, which is extraordinary on the American continent, as almost all other American countries are republics.


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Canada's formal head of state is the monarch of the United Kingdom, since 1952 Elizabeth II, but Canada's supreme real user of power is the Prime Minister of Canada.


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The main paragon of Canada's political system is the British system of the former colonial mistress, and it has not exactly separated legislative and executive powers.


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[42] The system of government is parliamentary democratic as in the United Kingdom.


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However, it differs from the British system in that the country is a federation consisting of provinces and territories and in that the country has a written constitution that guides the legal framework of the country and is formed from the written text as well as unwritten practices.


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The most important parts of the Constitution are the federal state form and constitutional bodies set by the 1867 statute and the 1982 Amendment.


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[43] Canada is part of the Commonwealth realm, one of the members of the Commonwealth, and is officially served as head of state by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.


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Elizabeth has ruled Canada continuously since 6 February 1952.


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[44] The Queen's Representative in Canada is a Governor-General appointed by the British Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister of Canada.


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The Governor-General is essentially a formal office.


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[3] The current Governor-General is David Johnston, who took office on 1 October in 2010.


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[45] Administrative power rests with the Prime Minister and the Government.


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The leader of the party that has received the most votes in federal parliamentary elections is appointed by the Governor-General as Prime Minister.


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Usually, the party that wins elections is able to form a majority government, and the remaining ministers are appointed on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.


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[46] Board members come from either the House of Representatives or the Senate — the main part of the House of Representatives.


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[44] The first Prime Minister in Canadian history was John A. Macdonald.


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The current Prime Minister is Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau.


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The Parliament of Canada consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate.


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308 elected members sit in the House of Representatives, and parliamentary elections are held every five years.


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[44] The House of Representatives has more power and, for example, only it is able to pass bills that require the use of public money.


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[3] The largest parties in Canada are the Bloc Québécois, which pushes for self-determination in Québec, the social democratic New Democratic Party, the Liberal Party, as well as the Conservative Party.


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[47] The Quebec Question Canadian domestic politics have been dominated in the latter half of the 20th century by issues related to Quebec's status.


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French-speaking Quebec has developed its own kind of culture, with many Quebecians espousing separatism and separation from Canada.


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There have been two referendums on the situation in Quebec, however both of which ended in victory for those opposed to secession.


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Efforts have also been made on Quebec's status to be made that all provinces could support.


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[3] At the very end of the 20th century, however, Quebec's desires for separation have diminished.


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Furthermore, the majority of young people and immigrants are not in favor of separation, so in all likelihood support for difference will fade even further.


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[44] Foreign and Security Policy Foreign policy Canada's most important ally is the United States; the countries' relations are particularly important economically, as a significant proportion of both countries' exports go to the neighbouring country.


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A NAFTA free trade agreement has been concluded between the United States, Canada and Mexico.


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But countries do not always empathize with each other's political solutions, and Canada's opt-out of the Iraq war, for example, provoked outrage in the United States.


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Canada plays a wide-ranging role in foreign policy and is a member of all key world organizations including the United Nations, NATO, the World Trade Organization, the OECD, the G8, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.


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[48] The strength of the defence force has never been the most central part of Canada's security policy, and the country devotes less resources to its defence than most of its NATO partners.


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[3] Canada has a professional army, and its defence forces are divided into land forces, air forces and naval forces.


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Canada has been active in UN peacekeeping missions.


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[48] Provinces and Territories Main article: Canadian Provinces and Territories Canada consists of ten provinces and three territories.


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The provinces have a fairly large sovereignty, the territories are smaller.


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[49] Provinces are responsible for most of the social functions — such as health, education and welfare — and in addition, each province has its own government and parliament headed by the Prime Minister.


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The Queen's representative in the provinces acts as the Lieutenant Governor.


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[50] The provinces collectively collect more revenue than the federal government.


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The federal government may initiate government-wide policies, which provinces are not obliged to follow.


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However, provinces almost always follow the state line.


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Economy Overall Canada is a very prosperous, high-tech industrial society that resembles the United States with its trade-focused economic system, production models and high standard of living.


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The growth in the 20th century in final production, mining, and service sectors has made the agrarian society industrialized and urbanized.


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Canada is a member of both the OECD and the G8, making it also one of the world's richest and most significant economic powers.


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[53] In 2012, Canada's gross domestic product was the 10th largest in the world, according to an estimate by the International Monetary Fund.


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[54] The 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) greatly increased trade and economic integration with the U.S.


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The Canadian economy has done well several times even during downturns.


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However, Canada was also affected by the international recession, and in 2010 the economy grew by just three per cent.


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[55] Industries and foreign trade As with other Western industrialized nations, Canada's economy is dominated by the service sector, which employs about three-quarters of Canada's residents and generates more than two-thirds of GDP.


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[56] The service sectors have also grown considerably in the 2000s.


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The sector's gross domestic product grew by 31.2 per cent between 2000 and 2010, and its workforce increased by 2.4 million people.


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Particularly high growth has been in the province of Alberta, where in the 2000s the gross domestic product of services grew by 51.2 per cent.


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[57] In 2008, the largest service sectors in terms of value added were finance, insurance, real estate and administrative services, health and social services, retail trade, wholesale trade and public administration.


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[58] Tourism to Canada is also on the rise.


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[3] Canada is one of the world's top suppliers of agricultural products, and the Canadian Prairies are the world's top suppliers of wheat and other cereals.


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Only about eight per cent of Canada's land area is cultivable, and only about two per cent of the workforce [56] is employed in agriculture.


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It is still a major factor in the country's economy, producing a lot of food both domestically and for export, and additionally raw material for the food industry.


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[3] The best arable land is located near the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River, [59] but four-fifths of the arable land lies in the prairie provinces.


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[3] In 2006, there were 229373 farms in the country and their average size was approximately 295 hectares.


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The cultivated land area was approximately 676,000 square kilometers in 2006, Although the number of farms is decreasing all the time, the area under cultivation has remained broadly the same in the 21st century.


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[60] Canada is unusual among other developed Western nations in that primary production plays an important part in its economy.


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Canada's mineral and energy resources have emerged as the country's largest sources of the economy.


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[61] Canada has massive mineral resources and is one of the world's largest producers of uranium, zinc, nickel, potash, asbestos, sulphur, cadmium and titanium.


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Other notable extractives include iron ore, coal, petroleum, gold, copper, silver, and lead.


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[3] The manufacturing industry accounts for about one-fifth of Canada's GDP and employs about one-seventh of the workforce.


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[3] The six largest industries in terms of gross domestic product are transport equipment manufacturing, metal processing and metal product manufacturing, food industry, chemicals, machinery manufacturing, and manufacturing of timber and products.


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[62] As Canada's domestic market is relatively small, the share of foreign trade in the economy has become more pronounced.


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Exports therefore account for more than a third of GDP and employ about a third of the workforce.


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[63] The United States is by far Canada's largest trading partner.


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Seventy-two per cent of Canadian exports go to the United States and 61.7 per cent of imports come from the United States.


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[64] China's role has been in marked growth, with trade between the two countries tripling during the 21st century.


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[65] Energy Canada is a self-sufficient state in terms of energy.


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[66] In 2009, the country was the sixth largest electricity producer in the world, with an annual output of 632 billion kWh.


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Of electricity it consumed 549 billion kWh in the same year.


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Most of the country's electricity is generated by hydropower, and the country is the second largest producer of hydroelectricity after China.


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Hydropower accounts for 63.1% of production.


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Coal power accounted for 17.4 per cent and nuclear power was 14.8 per cent.


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Oil and natural gas accounted for 4.1 percent.


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[67] Transport Canada Transport consists primarily of large road and rail systems connecting the country's major cities in an east-west direction.


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The transport system in the Arctic regions of the country is significantly less developed in these respects, which is why air transport plays a very important role in these regions.


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Rail transport played a significant part in the formation of Canada, but its importance has declined in recent decades, largely due to the popularity of automobile and air travel.


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The country has a large and developed railway system, which is now mainly used for the transportation of goods.


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Two major private freight rail companies operate in the country, Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway.


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State-owned VIA Rail operates passenger services across almost the entire territory of the country.


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Canada's main rail lines are all in the southern parts of the country, with most passenger traffic concentrated, particularly in the area of the so-called Québecin—Windsor corridor.


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[3] Underground metro traffic in Canada exists only in Toronto and Montreal.


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Vancouver, by contrast, has an above-ground monorail.


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In addition, Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa have an operational express track system.


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[68] In densely populated areas of Canada, the road network is dense, but in sparsely populated areas, roads are also sparse.


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Many outlying villages are only roads built by forestry or mining companies, which are not always even in public use.


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A major highway system, the Trans-Canada Highway connects Canada in an east-west direction.


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It was completed in 1962 and enabled a 7821-mile-long car journey from St. John's, Newfoundland to British Columbia.


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[3] Canada has the fourth largest number of airports in the world, with 1404.


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Of those, 18 have more than two miles of paved runway.


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[56] By far the largest airport in Canada is Pearson International Airport in Toronto.


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[69] It was the 18th busiest airport in the world based on 2010 take-offs and landings.


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[70] Other important airports include Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Vancouver International Airport and Calgary International Airport.


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Canada's main airline is considered one of the safest airlines considered Air Canada.


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[69] Water transport transports a large part of Canada's internal and overseas freight traffic.


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The nearly 3800-mile-long Saint Lawrence Waterway is an important route along which grain and iron ore are carried, among other things.


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[3] Population Demographics 2012 estimate 1year 2011 estimate 2year 2009 estimate Source: [56] AgeStructure0—14 years old 15.7% 15—64 years 68.5% over 64 years old 15.9% 1Median age41 years1Population growth 0.784 %Birthrate 10.28/1000 personsMortality8.09/1000 personsInfant mortality rate 4.85/1000 birthsNet immigration 5.65/1000 personsLife expectancy average: 81.48 years men: 78.89 years women: 84.21 years HIV prevalence adult population 0.3 %2Literate 99% of the population Population distribution According to the 2016 Census of Canada, the country had a population of 35151728.


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Canada's population has increased tenfold since 1871, when the country had a population of just 3.5 million.


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Between 2011 and 2016, the country's population grew by an average of about 1% per year.


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About two-thirds of the population growth was the result of immigration.


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Despite its growing population, Canada remains a very sparsely populated country.


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In 2016, the population density was only 3.9 per km².


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For example, the South Neighbor United States had an equivalent reading of 35.3 per km².


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[71] The majority of Canada's population lives in the southern part of the country near the U.S. border.


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[72] Two-thirds of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.


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The area comprises only 4% of the total area.


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The population has shifted over the course of Canadian history towards the west and in 2016, the territory of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia was home to about one-third of the country's population.


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[71] The largest concentrations of population are the approximately 1150 kilometre-long corridor between Quebec and Windsor, home to about 60% of Canada's population, the Vancouver Metropolitan Area in British Columbia, and the Calgary—Edmonton Corridor in Alberta.


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[73] Around 80% of the population live in cities.


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[74] Ethnic groups in the 2016 Canadian Census were asked about the ethnicity of citizens.


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The census took into account more than 250 different ethnic groups and Canadians could report belonging to more different groups.


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The largest individual groups were from the British Isles or France, but the proportion of these groups has fallen historically.


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In 1871, 60.5% reported ethnic groups from the British Isles as their background and 31.1% from France.


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Only 1% were recorded as belonging to the indigenous population.


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In 2016, the largest single reported group were Canadians, of which there were approximately 11.1 million or 32.3% of the total population.


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The next largest groups were English (6.3 million), Scots (4.8 million), French (4.7 million) and Irish (4.6 million).


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In total, groups of different European backgrounds included 20 million Canadians.


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Also among the 20 largest groups were Chinese (1.8 million), East Indians (1.4 million) and Filipinos (837130).


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[75] A total of 7674580 Canadians belonged to the so-called visible minorities, which, as a term, comprises non-white and aboriginal people in Canada.


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[76] In 2016, 1673785 Canadians, or 4.9% of the population, reported belonging to indigenous communities.


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Indigenous peoples in Canada comprise the first peoples, the Métis and the Inuit.


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The first peoples included 977230 persons, the Métises 587545 and the Inuit 65025.


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More than half of the first peoples live in the western regions of Canada.


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Relatively, the highest number of them were in the Northwest Territories population (32.1%) and the highest number in terms of quantity in Ontario (1.8% of the province's population, 24.2% of first peoples).


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Of the Métisses, 80.3% lived in the western regions of Canada and Ontario.


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The largest concentration of them was in Ontario (120585).


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72.8% of Inuit people lived in an Inuit historical residential area, also known as Inuit Nunangat.


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In its territory, 63.7% of Inuit people lived in Nunavut and 24.9% in Nunavik.


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[77] In 2016, 7540830 Canadians, or 21.9% of the total population, had been born overseas.


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Of them, 1212075 recently arrived between 2011 and 2016.


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Of those who recently immigrated to Canada, 61.8% arrived from Asia, 13.4% from Africa, 12.6% from the Americas, and 11.6% from Europe.


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The five most common homelands for recent migrants from Asia were the Philippines, China, India, Pakistan and Syria.


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From Africa, respectively, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Cameroon.


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More than half of the immigrants live in the Toronto, Vancouver and Montréal neighborhoods.


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Of those who moved recently, about 6/10 arrived for financial reasons and 3/10 for family reasons.


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1/10 were refugees.


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[76] Religion The 2016 census did not ask the religious background of Canadians.


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[78] However, religion was asked in 2011. At that time, the largest religious group was formed by Christians.


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They totaled 22.1 million, or 67.3% of all Canadians.


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Of the Christian groups, the largest were 12.8 million Catholic Catholics.


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Muslims numbered 1053945, Hindus 497965, Sikhs 454965, Buddhists 366830 and Jews 329495.


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In total, the above-mentioned groups included 2.4 million Canadians, or about 7.2% of the total population.


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7850605 Canadians, or 23.9% of the total population, did not attribute themselves to any religious group.


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[79] Language Canada has two official languages, English and French.


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Quebec's official language is French, and New Brunswick is the only officially fully bilingual province in the country.


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[3] In Manitoba, French is, along with English, the official language in the judiciary, public administration and education is available by law in both languages.


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The only official language of the other provinces is English.


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Several aboriginal languages have official status in the Northwest Territories.


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[80] Inuit languages are the most spoken languages in Nunavut and also have official status in the territory.


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[81] English is the larger of Canada's two official languages.


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In 2016, it was hit by about 30 million Canadians, or 86.2% of all Canadians.


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Native English was spoken by 20193335 Canadians in 2016, or 58.1% of all Canadians.


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French, the second official language, was known by approximately 10.36 million persons in 2016, or 29.8% of all Canadians.


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The vast majority of French talent, 7.6 million people, live in Quebec.


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Outside of that, there are 2.7 million French talents.


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Native French was spoken by a total of 7452075 people in 2016, or 21.4% of all Canadians.


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Of the native speakers of French, about 1 million lived outside Quebec.


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The relative number of people who speak English, as well as French as native speakers and at home, has been on the decline.


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[82] As a result of immigration, the number of people speaking non-two official languages of Canada has increased.


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[82] In 2016, 7335745 Canadians, or 21.1% of the total Canadian population, spoke one of the languages of immigrants as their mother tongue.


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There are more than 140 different languages of immigrants.


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[83] The largest native languages of immigrant background in 2016 were Mandarin Chinese (610835), Cantonese Chinese (594030), Pandzab (543495), Tagalog (510420), Spanish (495090), Arabic (486525), Italian (407455) and German (404745).


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The total number of languages with an immigrant background of more than 100000 speakers was 22.


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75.5% of language speakers with immigrant backgrounds lived in Canada's six largest metropolitan areas.


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[84] In addition to the two official languages and those with immigrant background, more than 70 indigenous languages are spoken in Canada.


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In 2016, 260550 Canadians could speak one of the Indigenous languages.


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Among indigenous people, the number of talent constitutes 15.6%.


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The relative number of language experts has decreased, but the total number has increased.


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Native Indigenous languages were spoken by 208720 people, or somewhat less knowledgeable.


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Measured in number of language proficient, the largest indigenous languages in 2016 were Cree (96575), Inuktitut (39770), Odžibwa (28130), Oji-cree (15585), Dene (13005) and Montagnais (11360).


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[85] Largest cities See also: List of cities in Canada and List of 100 largest cities in Canada Most of Canada is an extremely sparsely populated or even uninhabited area.


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The population is concentrated in cities, primarily near the border with the United States.


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Up to about a quarter of Canadians live in one of the ten largest cities, and more than 40 percent in one of the metropolitan areas of those cities.


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1 Part of the Toronto metropolis.


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Education In Canada education is provided by the provinces and their ministries of education, and each province has its own school institution.


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[88] However, it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide education in the Territories, Indian schools, inmates in federal prisons, and family members of the Canadian Armed Forces on military bases.


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[3] The state spends about five percent of its GDP on education.


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[89] In most parts of the state there is an opportunity to study in both English and French.


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Parents do not have to put their children in public school, and an estimated 6% to 8% of pupils attend private school.


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[90] At the international level, Canada's educational attainment is of a high standard.


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In the 2009 PISA survey, Canada ranked sixth.


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However, the study also noted significant differences between provinces.


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[91] The first degree of government-provided education is a voluntary kindergarten started at the age of 4—5.


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[92] Obligatory primary school begins at the age of six.


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[93] Pupils transfer at the age of 14 to a high school or other secondary institution, and children must attend teaching by the age of 16.


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Most, however, finish their four-year high school.


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[94] As far as universities are concerned, the main difference between provinces lies in how much public funding they receive for their activities.


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About 72% of Alberta's university revenues came from public funds, compared with just 49% of revenue for Nova Scotia universities.


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Quebec universities, by contrast, have the lowest school fees.


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[95] In Shanghai's Jiao Tong University's 2011 university rankings, among the top 100 of Canadian universities were the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, McGill University and McMaster University.


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[96] Culture Peculiarities Canadian culture has been particularly influenced by British, French and American culture.


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[3] Canada is a multicultural state and multiculturalism has been the official policy of the administration since 1971.


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The United States is commonly known as the “melting pot” of nations, while Canada, in turn, is a “mosaic” of nations where each group of people has formed its own piece of mosaic.


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[97] The diversity of Canadian culture is enhanced by the fact that the colonial influence of Britain and France has also been diverse.


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Among the British settlers were English, Irish, Welsh and Scots.


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The French, in turn, split in the 1760s into Canadian Frenchmen and Acadians.


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Furthermore, the British and French mixed with the native inhabitants, and thus the Métis were born.


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In addition, the indigenous peoples have been divided into several cultural groups, and since the mid-19th century there has been a large influx of immigrants from other countries as well.


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[98] American culture has also contributed much to Canada, and according to a 1951 report, Canadian culture was already nearly assimilated into that of its neighbouring country, particularly due to the invasion of US films, radio broadcasts, and magazines.


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Subsequently, the administration announced that Canadian media should be encouraged to publish Canadian works.


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[3] For example, some of the content of television and radio channels must be Canadian production, the required proportion varies depending on the format of the programmes and channels.


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[99] Canada's national symbols have been influenced by the nature, history and indigenous peoples of the country.


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In particular, the maple leaf is a well-known Canadian symbol and appears on the flag and coat of arms, among other things.


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[100] Other well-known symbols include a beaver, maple syrup, mounted police and a crown reflecting the monarchy.


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[101] Canada's national anthem is “O Canada” composed by Calixa Lavallée.


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[102] Canadian cuisine varies a lot from region to region.


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The cuisine of the eastern provinces has been influenced by the proximity to the sea, and many lobsters and cod are eaten in them, for example.


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You can already see the French influences in New Brunswick, serving pork-stuffed potatoes, poutine râpée.


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Quebec's food culture is very French, but the state is also the world's largest producer of maple syrup.


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Ontario, on the other hand, is Canada in miniature, combining the cuisines of many regions.


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Alberta is the beef capital of Canada.


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Manitoba has extensive Eastern European influences and has come with them, among other things, pierogi and sausages.


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In British Columbia, seafood is once again playing a starring role.


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The cuisine of the native peoples is quite distinct, and the Inuit, for example, have many more exotic dishes, such as maktaaq made from whale skin.


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[103] The arts of Canada have practically only in the twentieth century begun to acquire distinctive features.


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[104] Canadian painting is at its most typical landscape painting.


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The first distinctly Canadian style was developed in the 1920s by the so-called Group of Seven, whose members also painted landscapes.


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Although 20th century Canadian visual art has also been influenced by the Western art directions of the century, from abstract art to conceptual art, so still landscapes have been favorite subjects of many artists.


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Sculptures and crafts were made by Canadian natives well before the advent of Europeans, and they have also begun to be considered art only in the 20th century.


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[3] Literature is distributed in Canada specifically into English and French literature.


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The most common themes in Canadian literature are attitudes towards nature and frontier life, and Canada's place in the world.


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[105] In the opinion of some literary scholars, national Canadian literature does not exactly exist.


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[106] Many of the most commercially important Canadian writers, such as Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Douglas Coupland and Michael Ondaatje, are not particularly Canadian in their themes.


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[104] Thanks to European immigrants, art music has a strong tradition in Canada and, for example, all major cities have their own symphony orchestras.


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Arguably the most famous Canadian classical musician is pianist Glenn Gould.


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[107] Canada has also produced a large number of internationally successful popular musicians, however many of whom, such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and The Band have made their careers outside Canada.


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[3] The first truly known Canadian light music performer was Paul Anka, and after him have gained popularity including Shania Twain, k.d.


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lang, Justin Bieber and Céline Dion.


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[107] Recently, musicians such as Shawn Mendes, Drake, The Weeknd and Carly Rae Jepsen have also grown in popularity, particularly in the United States.


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[108] [109] [110] [111] A number of well-known film actors and directors have been born in Canada, but they often make their careers in Hollywood and thus generally do not gain recognition as Canadians.


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Many Hollywood films are also produced in Canada, and the Vancouver region in particular has come to be called North Hollywood.


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[105] Canada's own film production is struggling, however, as US films often take over the country's cinemas, which are hard to accommodate domestically made films.


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[112] Some of the best-known Canadian directors include David Cronenberg, Paul Haggis and James Cameron.


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Well-known actors have included Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox, Keanu Reeves, and Donald Sutherland.


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[105] Media At least one newspaper appears in every major or medium-sized city, and there are more daily newspapers in major cities.


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Two major “national” newspapers appear in Canada, both English-language, The Globe and Mail and National Post.


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[3] The Globe and Mail has the largest daily circulation (317781).


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The next biggest paper is the Toronto Star.


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[113] The largest newspaper publisher in the country is Sun Media.


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Newspapers are served by news agency The Canadien Press.


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[3] Canada's public broadcaster is the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which operates both an English and French-language television and radio network.


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Private CTV is another national network.


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There are 685 (2007) television channels operating in Canada, of which 456 are English-language, 103 are French-language and 126 are in other languages.


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[114] There are also 1222 radio channels operating in the country, of which 912 are English-language, 274 are French-language and 36 broadcast programmes in other languages.


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[115] According to a study published in January 2006, approximately 21.9 million Canadians, or about 66% of the country's population, use the Internet.


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In the number of Internet users, Canada ranks 12th among the countries in the world.


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Rank. [116].


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There are about 6.7 million broadband users in the country, which is the 8th most in the world.


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[117] By 2009, home internet subscriptions totaled 10.1 million, which is about 75% of all economies in the country.


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User numbers for high-speed subscriptions have also increased in recent years.


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In 2009, the number of subscriptions of 1.5 Mbps or faster rose to 62 percent, from 52 percent the previous year.


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[118] Sports Canada's official national sports are ice hockey and lacrosse, or lacrosse.


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[119] However, ice hockey is by far the most popular sport, and in the NHL League, founded in 1917, all teams were Canadian at first.


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[120] Today, seven of the 30 teams in the series come from Canada, [121] but there are still more Canadian players than players from other countries combined.


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[122] In addition, many of the best players of the time in hockey, such as Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe, are Canadian.


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[3] Other much-followed sports include curling and Canadian football [123].


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Golf, baseball, skiing, soccer, volleyball and basketball are much done at the hobbyist level, but professional kits are not so extensive.


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Canada has held three Olympic Games, the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics 1988 and the 2010 Winter Olympics.


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The country has participated in every Olympic Games since the Summer Olympics in 1904, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics.


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Canada's most successful Olympic athletes are cyclist and speed skater Clara Hughes and speed skater Cindy Klassen.


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Question: Which goth rock band's song from the end of the 1980s is Love under Will?

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Queen is an English rock music band founded in 1970 and one of the most popular bands of all time.


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[1] [2] The band's early production was a combination of influences from progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but gradually the band moved to more radio-friendly and conventional rock with their music, drawing influences from pop rock, among other things, and from stadium rock.


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The band's classical line-up was formed by vocalist and pianist Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor.


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Before founding Queen, May and Taylor played in the band Smile.


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Freddie Mercury, born Farrokh Bulsara, was a fan of Smile and encouraged the band to make various experiments in stage performing and recording.


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After Mercury joined the band as lead singer in 1970, he suggested the band change its name to Queen, and also adopted its new name himself.


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John Deacon joined the band before making their first-born album Queen (1973).


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Queen first rose to the UK album charts with her second album Queen II.


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The third album Sheer Heart Attack (1974) and most notably the fourth album A Night at the Opera (1975) brought the band to great popularity.


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A Night at the Opera's single “Bohemian Rhapsody” rose to number one on the UK singles chart.


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By entering the 1980s, Queen had established herself as one of the greatest ensembles of her time.


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“Another One Bites the Dust” (1980) formed as the most commercially successful single of the band's career in the United States, and the 1981 compilation Greatest Hits became the highest-selling album of all time in the UK.


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Queen's classic line-up performed for the last time together in August 1986, but continued to record.


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Freddie Mercury died in November 1991 from pneumonia caused by AIDS, and John Deacon retired from the band in 1997.


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In the 2000s, Brian May and Roger Taylor have re-assembled the band with their vocalists first Paul Rodgers (2004—2009) and later Adam Lambert (2012—).


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[3] Queen is estimated to have sold over 300 million albums worldwide, making the band one of the most successful musical artists of all time.


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The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.


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Eighteen of the band's albums, seventeen of the singles, and DVD releases, ten have been worldwide chart number-ones.


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Queen's best-known songs include “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Somebody to Love”, “We Will Rock You”, “We Are the Champions”, “Don't Stop Me Now”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, “Radio Ga Ga Ga”, “I Want to Break Free”, “A Kind of Magic”, “I Want It All” and “The Show Must Go On”.


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[4] History The Birth of Queen Guitarist Brian May and singer-bassist Tim Staffell had been part of a band called Smile.


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When it 1964 broke up, May and Staffell decided to form a new band, embarking on a search for a new drummer, at which point they found Roger Meaddows-Taylor (late.


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Roger Taylor).


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A new band Smile had emerged, and its first concert was a warm-up for the band Pink Floyd in October 1968.


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The band also got to record for Mercury Records, releasing the single “Earth” in August 1969 in the United States.


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[5] Singer-bassist Staffell left Smile in 1970, when the band was again without a vocalist.


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However, a friend of May and Taylor's soon stepped in [5] Freddie Mercury (ex.


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Farrokh Bulsara), [6] who proposed the creation of a new band.


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May and Taylor had nothing to lose, so they agreed.


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[5] Although they disdained Mercury's idea of naming the band Queen ('Queen'), as the musical atmosphere was very masculine at the time.


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However, Mercury felt it was a strong, universal and flamboyant name.


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He was also aware of its homosexual side-notation, which, however, was only one part of it, according to him.


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[7] Finding a bassist proved challenging, as during 1971 several entrepreneurs proved unsuitable.


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[8] The final bassist was eventually obtained by John Deacon, whom May and Taylor had met at a university disco.


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[9] With this line-up, Queen performed for the next 20 years, right up until the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991.


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[4] The band received a record deal from EMI in 1973.


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[10] 1970s — “No synthesizers” Queen's first album, Queen, released in 1973 with heavy rock and heavy metal, was not a major commercial success.


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[11] The band was not given much time to work on the album, but was recorded in a hurry mainly during the nighttime period.


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[12] Following the album's release, Queen went on a UK tour as a warm-up for the band Mott the Hoople.


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[13] The dark-hued Queen II, which came out the following year in 1974, was instead successful in the band's home country, reaching number 5 on the charts, and narrowly entering the top 50 in the United States.


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[14] [15] Much more effort had been put into the recording of that album.


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[12] Queen II also found the band's first hit “Seven Seas of Rhye”, which reached number 10 in the UK.


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[16] Queen had been able to perform the song prior to its release on the Top of the Pops TV show.


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[17] Good success on both the album and singles charts led Queen to make her first UK tour as well as a tour of America, there again as a warm-up for Mott the Hoople.


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[10] [11] However, the final appearances of Queen's tour had to be cancelled after guitarist Brian May contracted hepatitis.


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[13] Further, the third album Sheer Heart Attack, released in 1974, and particularly its single release “Killer Queen”, lifted Queen to great acclaim.


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Recording of this primarily hard rock and heavy metal album had begun with Brian May still ill, so he was forced to record his guitar and vocal contributions later than the rest of the band.


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[13] The album rose to number two on the UK chart and the “Killer Queen” single even claimed a top 10 spot on the US Billboard Hot 100.


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Another notable song with Sheer Heart Attack was to become a concert favourite, also released as a single, “Now I'm Here”, as well as “Stone Cold Crazy”, which has been considered one of the first steps in the thrash metal genre.


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[18] On the tour that followed the release of Sheer Heart Attack, Queen's classic line-up made their only appearance in Finland, at the Helsinki Cultural Hall in November 1974.


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[19] Since then, Roger Taylor The Cross with his band Roger Taylor The Cross have performed in Helsinki Tavastia in October 1991 about a month and a half before the death of Freddie Mercury [20], as well as Queen + Adam Lambert in Helsinki's Kaisaniemi Park in June 2016 and Hartwall Arena in November in 2017.


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The following year's record release, A Night at the Opera, made Queen definitively a superstar in 1975.


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The album stayed at number one in the UK for four weeks and reached number 4 in the United States too.


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[21] [22] The album's theme single, the six-minute rock opera “Bohemian Rhapsody” written by Mercury was voted in 1977 as the best single of the last 25 years.


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[23] “Bohemian Rhapsody” also formed as Queen's breakthrough single — it reached number one in the UK charts for nine weeks at the turn of the 1975—76 season.


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[24] A Night at the Opera changed the genre of the ensemble.


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[25] May's guitar riffs, arrangements, as well as Mercury's flamboyant vocals brought many new fans to the band.


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The record was a mix of several different musical styles and also won critics over.


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Roger Taylor's rocking “I'm in Love With My Car,” John Deacon's hilariously dramatic “You're My Best Friend,” Brian May's folk song “'39,” as well as Freddie Mercury's piano ballad “Love of My Life” were all very different and even the sounds vary on record a lot.


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Later, Brian May made “Love of My Life” an acoustic live adaptation and it formed as the cornerstone of the concerts, with Freddie Mercury even allowing the audience to sing the song almost entirely.


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A Night at the Opera was the most expensive album in the world, and at the same time a huge success selling triple platinum in the United States.


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[11] [19] Success was followed by the album A Day at the Races, released in 1976, whose title, like the previous record, was borrowed from the film of the Marx Brothers, who were greatly admired by Freddie Mercury.


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Like its predecessor, the album was a success — it sold over half a million copies in advance alone, reaching number one in the UK charts for one week.


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[10] [26] Among the album's biggest hits were the songs “Tie Your Mother Down” and “Somebody to Love”.


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Of these, the latter rose to 11th on the US list and second in Britain.


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In the same year, Queen also played a giant free concert in London's Hyde Park, where up to 180,000 listeners gathered.


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The Live 8 concert held in 2005 garnered “only” 150,000 curious at the same venue.


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[27] The News of the World, published in 1977, reached number 4 in the British list.


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[28] The album included the songs “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions”, which are still popular in sporting circles, and the ballad “Spread Your Wings”, composed by John Deacon, which became a minor hit in the UK.


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[29] [30] On the punk-spirited “Sheer Heart Attack” song, Queen showed her regeneration abilities.


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The style of the album differed considerably from its predecessors: vaudeville-type delights shone with their absence and the band had shifted to a more straightforward rock expression in its playing.


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Theatrical performance clothing was also switched to a simpler rock style.


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Times had changed and Queen kept up with the spirit of the times.


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The album Jazz was released in 1978.


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It included the success songs “Fat Bottomed Girls”, “Don't Stop Me Now”, “Bicycle Race” and the original “Mustaphan” composed by Mercury, among others.


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The ways of Queen and producer Roy Thomas Baker had parted ways after A Night at the Opera, but by this album Baker and Queen had once again teamed up.


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[31] The album reached number 6 in the United States [32] and number 2 in Britain.


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[33] Despite good commercial success, the album failed to win critics over and was described by Rolling Stone magazine in its famous review as “fascist”.


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Nowadays, however, Jazz has been regarded as one of Queen's smoothest albums.


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[34] In order to shoot the music video for the single “Fat Bottomed Girls”, Queen rented a tennis stadium in Wimbledon.


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There, the band staged a stunt in which 65 naked women cycled racing around the stadium.


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An image of a naked woman was also used on the cover of that single, which targeted the band with sexism accusations, particularly in the United States and Canada.


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[35] The year 1979 was the first in which Queen did not release a new studio album.


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Instead, a two-vinyl concert recording Live Killers came to the market, [36] composed from the spring 1978 tour of Europe.


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[37] The album reached number three in the UK and reached the top 20 in the United States.


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[38] [39] Queen 1980s The Game album was released in 1980, lifting Queen to number one on the US album charts for the only time.


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[40] The album was also successful elsewhere, reaching a five-time platinum record in Canada for example, [10] and staying at the top of the British charts for two weeks.


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[41] Stylistically the album drew closer to mainstream pop music, synthesizers were started to be used and the band's public image was also tidied up.


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These points divided the opinions of critics.


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[42] The Game's singles were successes like the album itself, and the album included the band's only US chart number one hits.


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Another of them was the Elvis Presley-style “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”.


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[43] [44] In the summer of 1980, John Deacon's “Another One Bites the Dust” song was released.


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Toned with a catchy bass riff and tight drum loop, the R&B-spirited track became Queen's biggest commercial hit in the United States, rising to the top of the charts.


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[44] Other singles — “Play the Game” and “Need Your Loving Tonight” — reached the top 50 in the United States.


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[44] Still in the same year 1980 Queen released the band's scale a low-profile soundtrack to the film Flash Gordon — Striking Lightning (ranking number 10 in the UK, 23 in the US).


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[45] [46] By the end of 1980, Queen's albums had sold over 45 million copies worldwide.


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[10] In 1981, Queen released the Greatest Hits compilation, one of the best-selling records of all time.


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It was a summary of the biggest star moments of the Queen's early years, and sold 11-times platinum in Britain alone.


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[47] In late 2006 it was the best-selling album of all time in the UK.


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[48] 1981 Queen also made a stadium tour of South America as the first band, performing among others for 131,000 spectators in São Paulo, Brazil.


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This is the largest paid concert audience number ever.


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[10] At the end of the year Queen achieved a major singles hit when “Under Pressure”, performed together with David Bowie, rose to the top of the UK charts for two weeks.


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[49] The new album Hot Space was recorded in early 1982 and released in May of the same year while the band was touring Europe.


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The Queen

[10] The album was stylistically new to Queen's career, as its opening half consisted of dance music garnished with a drum machine and synthesizer.


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[50] With Hot Space, Queen's popularity in the United States began to decline, its ranking on the Billboard chart was 22, making it the lowest-selling Queen album in eight years.


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[40] The band had lost those fans who were particularly attached to Queen's hard rock music.


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[51] However, success in the UK continued to be good, and Hot Space topped the list number four [52] — instead the album's singles “Body Language”, “Las Palabras de Amor” and “Backchat” failed to capture the top positions in the UK charts.


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[53] Queen members also began working on other projects, for example Brian May released a mini-LP Star Fleet Project in 1983 together with Eddie Van Halen.


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[54] Freddie Mercury, on the other hand, began the recordings of his first solo album Mr. Bad Guy and that record finally appeared in 1985.