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The Santa Fe Mountains at the southern end of the Rockies as seen from the Sandia Crest in New Mexico The summits of the Teton Range in Wyoming. The name of the mountains is a calque of an Algonquian name, specifically Cree ᐊᓯᐣᐘᑎ asin-wati (originally transcribed as-sin-wati), literally "rocky mountain".
Canada is divided into six time zones.Most areas of the country's provinces and territories operate on standard time from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March and daylight saving time the rest of the year.
A map of Halifax's Community Planning Areas Currently, the municipality is divided into 21 community planning areas which are further divided into neighbourhoods. [ 51 ] The regional municipality has taken steps to reduce duplicate street names for its 9-1-1 emergency dispatch services; at the time of amalgamation, some street names were ...
Montreal [a] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [18] it is now named after Mount Royal, [19] the triple-peaked hill around which the early settlement was built. [20]
The forests of Canada are located across much of the country. Approximately half of Canada is covered by forest, totaling around 2.4 million km 2 (0.93 million sq mi). [1] Over 90% of Canada's forests are owned by the public (Crown land and Provincial forest). About half of the forests are allocated for logging.
Sydney's coal shipping and steel manufacturing made a significant contribution to the Allied war effort, however federal Minister of Industry, C. D. Howe favoured Central Canada's steel industry given its proximity to a larger workforce and less exposure to coastal attack.
Map of Mohawk River Flag of Kenhtè꞉ke, the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. The Kanien'kehá:ka (transl. "People of the flint"; [2] commonly known in English as Mohawk people) are in the easternmost section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.
Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search.