Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra.
It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act , Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state.
The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture.
Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military.
While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In , indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Upon Confederation in , Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day.
Sherbrooke — Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. With , residents at the census, Sherbrooke was the sixth largest city in the province of Quebec, the Sherbrooke Census Metropolitan Area had , inhabitants, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Quebec and nineteenth largest in Canada. Sherbrooke is the economic, political, cultural and institutional centre of Estrie. There are eight institutions educating 40, students and employing 11, people,3, of whom are professors, teachers and researchers, the direct economic impact of these institutions exceeds 1 billion dollars.
The proportion of university students is Since the nineteenth century, Sherbrooke has been a manufacturing centre and this segment of the economy has experienced a considerable transformation in recent decades as a result of the decline of the citys traditional manufacturing sectors. The service sector occupies a prominent place in the economy of the city, the Sherbrooke region is surrounded by mountains, rivers and lakes.
There are several ski hills nearby and various tourist attractions in regional flavour, Mont-Bellevue Park, a large park in the city, is used for downhill skiing. The First Nations were the first inhabitants, having settled the region between 8, and 3, years ago. Traces of seasonal camps, characterized by arrowheads, scrapers, ceramic objects dating from the Woodland period were also found, indicating that the region continued to be occupied by nomadic people during this period.
Upon the arrival of Samuel de Champlain in Quebec in , france created an alliance through its missionaries with the Abenaki, located in Maine and Vermont. The French were driven to the valley of the St.
Seeking to obtain control of the territory, the area around present-day Sherbrooke was a battlefield between the two peoples who had to travel to the region. The Treaty of Paris was signed in , ending the war, the Eastern Townships were under Abekani control for a few years, having practised hunting and fishing for centuries. However, the American Revolution attracted loyalists to the region who began to covet the land and obtain government grants.
The first European settler to reside in the Sherbrooke region was a French Canadian named Jean-Baptiste Nolain, of whom few details are known, the first attempts at colonization occurred in on the banks of the St. Franco-Belgian comics — Franco-Belgian comics are comics that are created for a Belgian and French audience. These countries have a tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs.
The shared language creates an artistic and commercial market where national identity is often blurred, Flemish Belgian comic books are influenced by Francophone comics, yet have a distinctly different style, both in art as well as in spirit. Indeed, the distinction of comics as the art is prevalent in Francophone scholarship on the form, as is the concept of comics criticism.
In the s, after the end of the first world war, Saint-Ogan was one of the first French-speaking artists to fully utilize techniques popularized and formulaized in the USA, such as word balloons. In , the Abbot of Averbode in Belgium started publishing Zonneland, a magazine consisting largely of text with few illustrations, which started printing comics more often in the following years.
This continued during the remainder of the decade, with hundreds of magazines publishing mostly imported material, the most important ones in France were Robinson, Hurrah, and Coeurs Vaillants, while Belgian examples include Wrill and Bravo. In , Spirou magazine was launched, Spirou also appeared translated in a Dutch version under the name Robbedoes for the Flemish market. In , Dubuc won the Joe Shuster Award in the "Outstanding Writer" category for her work in the fourth Les Nombrils album, "Duel de belles" ; she was the first francophone winner in this category since the awards were created in In addition to English, Les Nombrils has been translated into these languages.
Unless specified, all translate to "Bellybuttons". Cover of the first "Bellybuttons" volume, Who do you think you are? Jenny, Vicky and Karine in her old look.
Retrieved 25 May La Tribune in French. In some cases, as with Chronicles of Narnia , disagreements about order necessitate the creation of more than one series. If the series has an order, add a number or other descriptor in parenthesis after the series title eg.
By default, it sorts by the number, or alphabetically if there is no number. If you want to force a particular order, use the character to divide the number and the descriptor. So, " 0 prequel " sorts by 0 under the label "prequel. Series was designed to cover groups of books generally understood as such see Wikipedia: Like many concepts in the book world, "series" is a somewhat fluid and contested notion. A good rule of thumb is that series have a conventional name and are intentional creations , on the part of the author or publisher.
For now, avoid forcing the issue with mere "lists" of works possessing an arbitrary shared characteristic, such as relating to a particular place. Avoid series that cross authors, unless the authors were or became aware of the series identification eg.