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12.Group of Severn七人画派
The Group of Severn was a group of Canadian painters. They appeared in the early 20th century. The group was the first to express a pictorial nationalism and a Canadian Impressionism.表现了绘画的民族主义和加拿大的印象主义。
6.Mackenzie River
Mackenzie River is one of two principal river systems in Canada. It flows between the Canadian Shield and the Rocky Mountains in west Canada. It is the second largest river system of North American.
9.British North America Act
The British North America Act is an act passed by the British parliament in 1867 to set up the Dominion of Canada, uniting Canada, New Bruck and Nova Scotia under a federal government.
10.Meech Lake Accord
In 1987 Canada’s top politicians reached an argument, offering Quebec special status within the country and privileges to unilaterally promote its French culture and language. The agreement was called Meech Lake Accord. It failed because of the strong opposition from Canada’s English-speaking majority.
8.Canadian Prairie
Canadian Prairie is the Canadian section of the Great Plains of North America. Great stretches of level and fertile grassland are found here. This region is the center of rich wheat belt. Wheat farming and cattle and sheep grazing are important here.
1.treaty of paris in 1763
---the seven years’ war ended with the signing of the treaty of paris in 1763.by the treaty of paris,new france with its 65,000settlers was ceded割让 to Britain.
13.Les Jeunesses Musicals du Canada加拿大青年音乐学会
JMC was founded in 1949 to spread musical culture and promote the musical development of young Canadians. Today JMC has over 100,000 members.
5.Canadian Shield加拿大地盾
---The Canadian Shield covers almost half of Canada. It is a semicircular半圆的 band of rocky highlands and plateaus around Hudson Bay from the northern shores of Quebec to the Arctic shores of the Northwest Territories. It is a region of hills, lakes, and swamps.沼泽
2.Constitutional act of 1791
---britain divided the old province of Quebec into two parts,lower Canada(modern canada) and upper Canada(modern ontario),each with its own legislature.立法机构。
11.the Inuit
The Inuit, also called the Eskimo, is the native people of Canada who came from Asia in prehistoric times. The word Inuit means “the people ” in their own language, whereas Eskimo is an Indian word meaning “eaters of raw flesh”.吃生鱼的人
7.Loyalist
The first British settlers in Canada were American refugees, who refused to fight against the British Army in the American War of Independence, because they felt they were more English than American. They called themselves Loyalists. Their settlements laid the base of English-speaking Canada.
3.Act of union in 1840
---联合法案 recommended that the two canadas be united in one province.
4.FTA and NAFTA
---it st free trade agreement signed by the two countries,which came into effect in 1989.