Canadian History/The Wildlife of the Lands The geography of
Canada is an diverse as the cultures that now exist in it. From
the rainforests in British Columbia to the tundra in the
Northwest Territories to the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick.
Today some of the best and most extensive broad-leaved deciduous
forests in the world still flourish in the Appalachians. To the
north are the conifers (red spruce and balsam fir, which grow at
the highest elevations) and the northern hardwoods: sugar maple,
buckeye, beech, ash, birch, and red and white oak. The western
slopes of the Great Smokies, with their abundant rainfall,
produce trees that have reached record maximum height and
diameter. Among these are the yellow poplar, buckeye, eastern
Canadian hemlock, and chestnut oak. The Appalachian forest is a
highly complex interdependent system. It forms one of the great
floral provinces of the Earth. There are the trees that bear
luxuriant bloom, such as serviceberry, redbud, hawthorn, yellow
poplar, dogwood, locust, sour