Welcome to the Canada Treasure Hunt. First of all, COPY the entire text from this document into a new Word document. Your assignment is to answer all of the questions below. In order to answer these questions you need to use the internet. Search for key words or phrases in Google. A good tip is to put your words or phrases in “ “. That way you will only get hits with the exact word string you have been searching for. For example: “Canada map” The idea of this treasure hunt is not to read all the web pages you find thoroughly but to look through them quickly to see if they might contain the information you are looking for. Of course, for some questions you will need to read more than for others. Write your answers into the word document, and print the page when you are done.
Are you ready? Then let’s start! 1: How many provinces and how many territories are there in Canada? What are they called? 2: Find out what the five biggest cities in Canada are called and where they are located (in what provinces). 3: What is the capital of Canada? 4: Who is the Governor General and what is her job? 5: What happened in Canada in 1982? 6: Find the homepage for Statistics Canada. Find the statistics of ethnic origin. How large a percentage of the Canadian population calls itself Canadian? 7: Stay at Statistics Canada. What is the third most spoken language in Canada? 8: What is the main thought behind the Canadian Multiculturalism Act?