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QUEBEC (QC) PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (PEI)
QUÉBEC ÎLE-DU-PRINCE-ÉDOUARD

MOTTO: Je me souviens | I remember MOTTO: Parva sub ingenti
JOINED CANADA: 1867 CAPITAL: Quebec City The small under the protection of the great
POPULATION: 8,164,361 † JOINED CANADA: 1873 CAPITAL: Charlottetown
SIZE: Largest province (1,542,056 km ) POPULATION: 142,907 †
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SIZE: Smallest province (5,660 km )

FLOWER: BIRD: TREE:
Blue Flag Iris Snowy Owl Yellow Birch FLOWER: BIRD: TREE:
CANADA IS COOL! Over 90 percent of Canada’s Lady’s Slipper Blue Jay Red Oak
maple syrup is produced in Quebec. CANADA IS COOL! The sand sings in Prince Edward
Island! A beach at the tip of PEI makes noise when
you walk across it. Some say it sounds like singing.
NEW BRUNSWICK (NB)
NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK NEWFOUNDLAND
MOTTO: Spem reduxit | Hope restored AND LABRADOR (NL)
JOINED CANADA: 1867 CAPITAL: Fredericton TERRE-NEUVE-ET-LABRADOR
POPULATION: 747,101 † MOTTO: Quaerite prime Regnum Dei
SIZE: Third-smallest province (72,908 km ) Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
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JOINED CANADA: 1949 CAPITAL: St. John’s
POPULATION: 519,716 †
SIZE: Seventh-largest province (405,212 km )
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FLOWER: BIRD: TREE:
Purple Black-Capped Balsam
Violet Chickadee Fir
CANADA IS COOL! New Brunswick is home FLOWER: BIRD: ANIMALS: TREE: MINERAL:
to the world’s second-largest whirlpool, Old Purple Atlantic Newfoundland Black Labradorite
Sow. It’s called Old Sow because of the loud Pitcher Puffin Dog and Spruce
slurping sound the water makes when it’s Plant Newfoundland
sucked into the pool. Pony
CANADA IS COOL! St. John’s is the foggiest city
in Canada.

NOVA SCOTIA (NS)
NOUVELLE-ÉCOSSE

MOTTO: Munit haec et altera vincit
One defends and the other conquers FLOWER: BIRD: ANIMAL: TREE: MINERAL:
JOINED CANADA: 1867 CAPITAL: Halifax Mayflower Osprey Duck Red Stilbite
POPULATION: 923,598 † Tolling Spruce
SIZE: Second-smallest province (55,284 km ) Retriever
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CANADA IS COOL! The highest tides in the world occur in the Bay of Fundy. The water level at
high tide is high enough to completely submerge a 4-storey building, as much as 16 metres!

† Population source: www.statcan.gc.ca (Census 2016) R–15