| Term | Definition |
|---|
| province | a political unit, similar to a U.S. state |
| territory | a political unit that doesn't have enough people to be a province |
| Canadian Shield | a huge, rocky region that curves around Hudson Bay like a giant horseshoe. The Shield covers half the land area of Canada. |
| Hudson Bay | large inland sea to the north of the province of Ontario |
| St. Lawrence Seaway | includes the Great Lakes (with their connecting rivers and canals) and the St. Lawrence River; largest seaway in the world |
| hydroelectric | electricity made from waterpower |
| Nunavut | an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit |
| Great Lakes | largest groups of freshwater lakes in the world |
| tundra | a treeless Artic region where the subsoil is permanently frozen |
| bilingual | using or knowing two languages |
| Inuit | a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia) |
| Seven Years' War | Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land |
| dominion | one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | Canadian Prime Minister who led his country to independence |
| separatist | having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude |
| Loyalist | A person who supported the British during the American Revolution |
| igloo | The Inuit word for snowhouse |
| constitution | law determining the fundamental political principles of a government |
| constitutional monarchy | A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution. |
| Parliament | Canada's legislature |
| prime minister | title of Canada's head of government |
| free enterprise | The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation. |
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