Canada Present The Excellent View

Canada Present the Excellent View

(Made for join CESI Blog Competition)

            Halo people! What do you know about Canada? Country with many beautiful cities? Bilingual country? Yeah, that’s right all. Canada with Ottawa as capital city has the geography location in northern portion of North America (41 % of the continent). Canada spans 60⁰00’N  95⁰00’W. Canada is the second largest country in America continent with total area 9,984,670 km² and water area is 8.92% of total area. With more than 32 million inhabitants, Canada absorbs more than 200,000 immigrants every year.

            Canada has many lakes. The Great Lakes feed the St. Lawrence River (in the southeast) where lowlands host much of Canada’s population. According to Statistics Canada, 72.0 % of the population is concerted within 150 km of the nation’s southern border with the United States, 70.0 % live south of the 49^th parallel, and over 60% of the population lives along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. Therefore, Canada’s density is 3.3 inhabitants/km² is among the lowest in the world.. Although this, 79.7 % of Canada’s population resides in urban areas, where population densities are increasing.

            In western Canada has many volcanoes and is part of the system of volcanoes found around the margins of the Ocean, which is called the Pacific Ring of Fire. There are over 200 young volcanic centers. They are grouped into five volcanic belts. They are the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, The Anahim Volcanic Belt, The Chilcotin Group, and The Wrangell Volcanic Field.

            Five per cent of Canada’s land area is arable. Canada has 7,200 km² of irrigated land (1993 estimate). Agricultural regions in Canada include the Canada Prairies, the Lower Mainland, and interior plateau of British Columbia, the St. Lawrence Basin and the Canadian Maritimes.

            Canada is a country in North America that has beautiful cities, stand among wave planes and snow mountain range is very suitable for peoples that need refreshing and spend their holiday with visit to overseas. Canada has many tourism objects starting from nature tour, culture until entertainment. With the number of its tourism object, Canada be able pull attention of international tourist and include into Top 20 International Tourist Arrivals by Country of Destination (2007).

Rank.	Country	International tourist arrivals
1.	France	80.9 million
2.	Spain	58.7 million
3.	United States	56.0 million
13.	Russia	20.6 million
14.	Canada	17.9 million
20.	Portugal	12.3 million

           There are many waterfalls in Canada. The most famous waterfall is Niagara Falls. Niagara is a big waterfall in Niagara River that located between New York with Ontario. This waterfall often described as one of seven wonders of the nature world, natural beauty of Niagara Falls formed when glacier from the latest iceage is subsided and water from Great Lakes form route through precipice of Niagara. Niagara is group name of three waterfalls that is Horseshoe Falls, America falls, and Bridal Veil Falls. The height of Niagara is 51 meter. More than 168,000 m³ water per minutes fall down and this is waterfall that strongest in North America. There are many interesting places here.

Ø  Skylon tower that famous with rotation dining room. Skylon tower is observation tower in Niagara waterfall that built at 1964 – 1965. Tower height is 160 meter.

Ø  The Niagara Falls Aviary, and Aerospace Museum, Daredevil about Niagara, and Niagara museum.

Ø  The Mist is fall adventure and fog bathes.

Canada has highest waterfall in North America, which is James Bruce Falls. This is ninth highest waterfall in the world with its height is 840 m and total width is 4.6 meter that is located in Marine Park, British Columbia, Canada. The best way to visit this waterfall is along winter and spring season.

Canada, we are coming!

In Canada, we can visit beauty cities starting from East Canada include Quebec and Ontario (industry and farming centre area), Toronto (the biggest city), and Ottawa (government centre). West Canada is regions that full of natural resources; include British Columbia (mountain area) and Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta (in prairie). North Canada includes Yakon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut with low of population density.

Ø  Vancouver and Victoria

The biggest metropolitan city in West Canada is Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2010, this city that also the third biggest in Canada get the first ranking of “The World’s Most Livable Cities” from The Economist. In 1792, this city founded by US Captain George Vancouver. The capital city of this province is Victoria that located in Vancouver Island, which is one of Arctic Archipelago in Nunavut and Northwest Territory and be the biggest island in the world. The population of Victoria is 300,000 inhabitants (inside town life about 80,000 inhabitants). In Victoria, there is Chinatown that is the first China area in Canada.

Getting from Downtown Vancouver to Downtown Victoria by scheduled bus, city bus, sightseeing tour that pick up 9am in winter and 7 or 8 in the summer time, by car, or by plane/helicopter with fares start from $129 one way for the 35-minute flight. In addition, for getting from Vancouver Airport to Downtown by scheduled bus, city bus, car, or by plane.

Ø  Whistler

It is sacred place for extreme sport fans start from newbie level until insane level. As choice place for sky in North America since mid-1990s, Whistler eligible for become host of Winter Olympiad 2010.

Ø  Toronto and Calgary

Toronto is the biggest city in Canada as the capital city of Ontario. Toronto builds in 1793. Since  1998, the population of Toronto is more than 5 million inhabitants. There is CN Tower as highest building in North America with its height 553.33 meter. City where held International Film Festival occupied fourth position of “The World’s Most Livable Cities” from The Economist. Below Toronto, there is Calgary as fifth position of “The World’s Most Livable Cities” from The Economist. This proves that Canada is most livable country.

No.	Hotels Name	Location
1.	Sheraton Toronto Airport Hotel and Conference Centre	801 Dixon Road M9W1J5 Toronto
2.	InterContinental Toronto	220 Bloor Street West M5S 1T8 Toronto
3.	Delta Chelsea Hotel	33 Gerrard Street West M5G 1Z4 Toronto
4.	Holiday Inn Toronto International Airport	970 Dixon Road M9W 1J9 Toronto
5.	Holiday Inn Toronto-Airport East	600 Dixon Road M9W 1J1 Toronto
6.	Holiday Inn Express Toronto-Downtown	111 Lombard Street M5C 2T9 Toronto
7.	Hampton Inn Toronto Airport Corporate Centre	5515 Eglinton Avenue West M9C 5K5 Toronto
8.	Hilton Toronto	145 Richmond Street West M5H 2L2 Toronto
9.	Bond Place Hotel	65 Dundas Street East M5B 2G8 Toronto
10.	Crowne Plaza Hotel Toronto Airport	33 CARLSON COURT M9W 6H5 Toronto

Ø  Quebec and Montreal

Quebec is province that use French as first language and the biggest province in Canada. Quebec is province as the biggest maple syrup producer in the world, so fleur-de-lis icon as motif for Canada’s flag. The biggest city in Quebec is Montreal, where it is located in Mount Royal Park. There is Blue Metropolis International Literary held every year in Montreal since 1999.

The Best Place for Shopping

1. West Edmonton Mall

West Edmonton Mall is the biggest Shopping Centre in North America. The area of West Edmonton Mall is 483,000 m². There are 58 entries gate with more than 800 shops, 110 restaurants, 21 bioscope, and about 325,000 lamps here. And West Edmonton Mall has the biggest parking lot in the world (for 20,000 cars).

2. Victoria Chinatown

Victoria Chinatown is popular area for tourist or artistic peoples. Its focus in block 500-600 meter from Fisgard Street and already develop together with Herald Street and Pandora Avenue. This area also called National Historic Site.

3. Kensington Market

Kensington Market also famous as “Jew market”. About 60,000 Jew peoples life in surround Kensington Market since 1920. Nowadays, Kensington Market was famous as main tourist center and life culture center with unique condition.

Hunting Canada’s Food

            Hungry? Just visit to the Canada’s best new restaurants that provide various foods such as the hot chicken sandwich, etc. This is list of the best restaurants in Canada.

No.	Restaurant Name	Location
1.	Haisai Singhampton	Haisai, 794079 County Rd. 124, Singhampton, Ontario, 705-445-2748,
2.	Bao Bei Vancouver	Bao Bei 163 Keefer St., Vancouver 604-688-0876
3.	Cava Montreal	Cava 5551, av. du Parc, Montréal 514-273-7772
4.	Local Kitchen & Wine Bar Toronto	Local Kitchen Wine & Bar 1710 Queen St. W., Toronto 416-534-6700
5.	Stone Soup Inn Cowichan Valley	Stone Soup Inn 6755 Cowichan Lake Rd., Cowichan Valley, B.C. 250-749-3848
6.	Charcut Roast House Calgary	Charcut Roast House 899 Centre St. S.W., Calgary (at Hôtel le Germain Calgary), 403-984-2180,
7.	Quatrefoil Dundas	Quatrefoil 16 Sydenham St., Dundas, Ontario 905-628-7800
8.	EdGe Sooke	EdGe 6688 Sooke Rd., Sooke, B.C. 778-425-3343
9.	Buca Toronto	Buca 604 King St. W., Toronto, 416-865-1600
10.	Le Quartier Général Montreal	Le Quartier Général, 1251, rue Gilford, Montréal, 514-658-1839,

That is all everything about Canada. I hope that this article can help for those who interest to know about Canada.

ARTICLE REFERENCE

http://www.studyandworkincanada.org/ CESI Official website

http://en.wikipedia.org/  Top 20 International Tourist Arrivals by Country of Destination (2007)

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ about trip of Vancouver to Victoria

http://id.tixik.com/ about Best Canadian Mall

http://id.tixik.com/ photo reference

http://www.hotel.info/ hotel in Toronto

http://enroute.aircanada.com/ Canada best new restaurants