Saskatchewan 2. Yukon 3. Ontario 4. Quebec

A.Its historical major industry has been mining (lead, zinc, silver, gold, asbestos and copper). The government acquired the land from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870 and split it from the Northwest Territories in 1898 to fill the need for local government created by the population influx of the gold rush.

Manufacturing, including furniture, clothing, and handicrafts, follows in importance, along with hydroelectricity. The traditional industries of trapping and fishing have declined. Today, the government sector is by far the biggest employer in the territory, directly employing approximately 5,000 out of a labour force of 12,500.

Its tourism motto is "Larger than life". The province’ s major appeal is its nearly pristine nature. Tourism relies heavily on this, and there are many organised outfitters and guides available to hunters and anglers and nature lovers of all sorts. Sports enthusiasts can paddle lakes and rivers with canoes and kayaks, ride or walk trails, ski or snowboard in an organized setting or access the backcountry by air or snowmobile, climb the highest peaks of North America or take a family hike up smaller mountains, or try ice climbing and dog sledding.

B.Its economy is associated with agriculture; however, increasing diversification has meant that now agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting together make up only 6.8% of the province's GDP. It grows 45% of Canada's grain. Wheat is the most familiar crop and the one most often associated with the province (there are sheafs of wheat depicted on the coat of arms of Saskatchewan), but other grains like canola, flax, rye, oats, peas, lentils, canary seed, and barley are also produced. Beef cattle production in the province is only exceeded by Alberta. Mining is also a major industry in the province, with this province being the world's largest exporter of potash and uranium. In the northern part of the province, forestry is also a significant industry.

Oil and natural gas production is also a very important part of its economy, although the oil industry is larger. Only Alberta exceeds the province in overall oil production.

C.The St. Lawrence River Valley is a fertile agricultural region, producing dairy products, fruit, vegetables, foie gras, maple syrup (of which this province is the world's largest producer), fish, and livestock.

North of the St. Lawrence River Valley, the its territory has significant resources in its coniferous forests, lakes, and rivers—pulp and paper, lumber, and hydroelectricity (of which it is also the world's largest producer) are still some of the province's most important industries.

There is a significant concentration of high-tech industries around Montreal, including aerospace companies such as aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, the jet engine company Pratt & Whitney, the flight simulator builder CAE, defence contractor Lockheed Martin, Canada and communications company Bell Canada. In the video game industry, large video game companies such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft have studios in Montreal.

D.It is Canada's leading manufacturing province accounting for 52% of the total national manufacturing shipments in 2004.

Its rivers, including its share of the Niagara River, make it rich in hydroelectric energy.

An abundance of natural resources, excellent transportation links to the American heartland and the inland Great Lakes making ocean access possible via container ships, have all contributed to making manufacturing the principal industry, found mainly in the Golden Horseshoe region, which is the largest industrialized area in Canada, the southern end of the region being part of the North American Rust Belt. Important products include motor vehicles, iron, steel, food, electrical appliances, machinery, chemicals, and paper. Ontario has Chrysler plants in Windsor and Bramalea, two GM plants in Oshawa and one in Ingersol, a Honda assembly plant in Alliston, Ford plants in Oakville and St. Thomas and Toyota assembly plants in Cambridge and Woodstock.

Toronto, its capital, is the centre of Canada's financial services and banking industry

Mining and the forest products industry, notably pulp and paper, are vital to the economy of Northern part of this province.

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1. What are major criteria that put Canada on the first place in the world in the 1990s.

2. What are macroeconomic parameters of Canada?

3. What is the structure of Canadian economy?

4. What is the result of the program encouraging foreign investments into Canada?

5. Why does Canada have close trade relations with many Asian countries of the Pacific Ocean region?

6. What does Canada export?

7. What natural resources is Canada rich in?

8. How is the most part of all electricity in Canada produced by?

9. What are Alberta and Saskatchewan famous for?

10. What are the main research spheres in Canada?

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1. According to general structure of living and some other criteria Canada is on the first place in the world.

2. Ecological situation of Canada is one of the best in the world.

3. Due to the program encouraging foreign investments into Canada the country lost 110 million of dollars.

4. Canada is the largest producer of energy in the world.

5. Prairies are places of Canadian farms.

6. Canada is rich in silver, cold, tin, bauxite, lead.

7. Atomic energy is the main source for producing electricity.

8. Canada is among leading highly industrialized countries of the world.

9. Due to the government support Canadian researchers have a great success in science.

10. The Nobel Prize was awarded to two Canadian scientists.