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    The Canadian Shield (French: Bouclier canadien [buklje kanadjɛ̃]), also called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a...
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    last glacial period, Canada has consisted of eight distinct forest regions, including extensive boreal forest on the Canadian Shield; 42 percent of the...
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    taxonomic levels higher than the species level (genus, family)." The Canadian Shield bioregion extends across the northern portion of the continent, from...
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    Eastern Canadian Shield taiga is an ecoregion of Canada as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system. Located in northeastern Canada, this...
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    The Central Canadian Shield forests are a taiga ecoregion of Eastern Canada, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system. This ecoregion...
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    The Midwest Canadian Shield Forests is an ecoregion in Canada, classified as a Taiga and Boreal Forests Biome. This is an area of rolling hills with lakes...
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    the shape "not unlike a flat shield" of the Canadian Shield which has an outline that "suggests the shape of the shields carried by soldiers in the days...
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    Superior Province, Canadian Shield, Geological Survey of Canada, pp 27-29 Pdf Percival, J.; Easton, R. "Geology of the Canadian Shield in Ontario: An Update"...
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    kilometres (508 mi) from the North Pole. Canada can be divided into seven physiographic regions: the Canadian Shield, the interior plains, the Great Lakes-St...
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    Green Shield Canada (GSC) is a not-for-profit benefits carrier that provides drug, dental, extended health care, vision, hospital and travel benefits...
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    regions, the Precambrian Canadian Shield and the Phanerozoic Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Within the Precambrian shield exists the Athabasca sedimentary...
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    The Baltic Shield (or Fennoscandian Shield) is a segment of the Earth's crust belonging to the East European Craton, representing a large part of Fennoscandia...
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  • western Canada, which extend from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Canada-US border east of the Canadian Cordillera and west of the Canadian Shield; links...
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    Northern Canadian Shield taiga is a taiga ecoregion located in northern Canada, stretching from Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories to Hudson...
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    2011-02-21. "Canada: Taiga Shield reference" (PDF). Enr.gov.nt.ca. Retrieved 28 February 2022.[permanent dead link] "Climate of Canadian ecozones". Geography...
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    Ontario (redirect from Ontario, Canada)
    of the new province at Confederation in 1867. The thinly populated Canadian Shield, which dominates the northwestern and central portions of the province...
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  • Operation Sky Shield, properly Exercise Sky Shield, was a series of three large-scale military exercises conducted in the United States and Canada in 1960,...
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    Central Canada (French: Centre du Canada, sometimes the Central provinces) is a Canadian region consisting of Ontario and Quebec, the largest and most...
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    Angell Woods Bois Beckett Forest Central Canadian Shield forests Eastern Canadian forests Eastern Canadian Shield taiga Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests...
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    radiates throughout Canada, but its border ends near the Rocky Mountains (but still contains Alaska) and at the end of the Canadian Shield, near the Great...
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    Quebec (redirect from Quebec, Canada)
    Quebec. The Canadian boreal forest is the northernmost and most abundant of the three forest areas in Quebec that straddle the Canadian Shield and the upper...
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    Laurentian Mountains (category Mountain ranges of Canada)
    Province formed, a subdivision of the Canadian Shield. During that time, Laurentia, the geologic core of the Canadian Shield, collided with other continents...
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    Laurentide Ice Sheet (category Glaciology of Canada)
    smaller lakes of the Canadian Shield. These lakes extend from the eastern Northwest Territories, through most of northern Canada, and the upper Midwestern...
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  • Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands (category Physiographic regions of Canada)
    physiographic region of Eastern Canada that comprises a section of southern Ontario bounded on the north by the Canadian Shield and by three of the Great Lakes...
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    orogenic zones. The Canadian Shield is a large area of Archean through Proterozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks in eastern Canada and north central and...
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    Laurentian Upland (category Mountain ranges of Canada)
    Canadian Shield. The Laurentian Region, as recognized by Natural Resources Canada, is part of the plateau and dissected southern rim of the Canadian Shield...
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    The Canadian Heraldic Authority (CHA; French: Autorité héraldique du Canada) is part of the Canadian honours system under the Canadian monarch, whose authority...
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    sterling, and renminbi. The Canadian dollar is popular with central banks because of Canada's relative economic soundness, the Canadian government's strong sovereign...
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    Table-top mountain or mesa in the Guiana Highlands of South America Canadian Shield – Geographic and geologic area of North America Caribbean South America –...
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  • subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census for census subdivisions. This list includes...
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