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Niagara Falls

Quality Hotel Fireside
Quality Hotel Fireside
4067 River Road, Niagara Falls (Ontario)


Toronto

The Strathcona Hotel
The Strathcona Hotel
60 York Street, Financial District, Toronto (Ontario)


CANADA


Capital
Ottawa

Currency
Canadian dollar (CAD)

Area
9.984,670 square km

Location
Canada is bound on the north by the Arctic Ocean, by Baffin Bay and Davis Strait on the northeast, which separate it from Greenland, by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, by the United States on the south and by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska on the west.

Land boundaries
8,893 km

Elevation extremes
lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mount Logan 5,959 m

Language
English (official) approx 59%, French (official) aprox 22%

Nationality
Canadian

Religions
Roman Catholic, Protestant (including United Church, Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran), other Christian, Muslim , other and none

Time
Canada uses 6 time zones:
Pacific Standard Time (PST time) UTC -8
Eastern Standard Time (EST time) UTC -5
Mountain Standard Time (MST time) UTC -7
Atlantic Standard Time (AST time) UTC -4
Central Standard Time (CST time) UTC -6

National holiday

2010

01 Jan New Year's Day
02 Apr - 5 Apr Easter
24 May Victoria Day
01 Jul Canada Day
06 Sep Labour Day
11 Oct Thanksgiving Day
11 Nov Remembrance Day
25 Dec - 26 Dec Christmas
 

2011

01 Jan New Year's Day
22 Apr - 25 Apr Easter
23 May Victoria Day
01 Jul Canada Day
05 Sep Labour Day
10 Oct Thanksgiving Day
11 Nov Remembrance Day


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Ottawa
Ottawa



Toronto
CN Tower

Montréal
Montréal
Olympic Stadium

1000 islands
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