Long, long ago, when birds and flowers and trees could talk, a beautiful fountain sprang up in the midst of a forest, little sunbeams crept between the leaves, and, as they fell upon it, made it shine like silver. one day a lad, who had been hunting in the forest, lost sight of his friends

Kanada yavlyayetsya nezavisimym federativnym gosudarstvom. eto odna iz samykh razvitykh stran. kanada sostoit iz desyati provintsiy i dvukh territoriy. on raspolozhen na severoamerikanskom kontinente. po razmeru kanada zanimayet vtoroye mesto v mire posle rossii. yego ploshchad' sostavlyayet pochti 10 millionov km2. stolitsey kanady yavlyayetsya ottava, kotoraya raspolozhena na beregu reki ottava. on slavitsya svoimi prekrasnymi parkami. on takzhe izvesten kak gorod mostov. kanada ochen' bogata lesami, mineralami i pushnymi zhivotnymi. on zanimayet pervoye mesto v mire po kolichestvu lesov. on bogat sleduyushchimi prirodnymi resursami: tsvetnymi metallami, uranom, neft'yu, prirodnym gazom, uglem. kanadskaya promyshlennost' proizvodit avtomobili, avialaynery, lokomotivy, morskiye suda, mashiny dlya snegouborochnoy tekhniki i sel'skokhozyaystvennuyu tekhniku. naiboleye razvitymi otraslyami yavlyayutsya lesozagotovitel'naya, khimicheskaya, myasnaya i molochnaya i pishchevaya otrasli. v kanade vyrashchivayut pshenitsu, yachmen', len, kartofel', ovoshchi i frukty. rybalka takzhe yavlyayetsya odnoy iz protsvetayushchikh otrasley. ofitsial'nymi yazykami kanady yavlyayutsya angliyskiy i frantsuzskiy. pochti 60 protsentov naseleniya govoryat po-angliyski, a 27 protsentov govoryat po-frantsuzski. ostal'nyye govoryat na drugikh yazykakh, takikh kak eskimosskiy, indiyskiy, nemetskiy, ukrainskiy i ital'yanskiy. kanada yavlyayetsya odnim iz osnovateley organizatsii ob"yedinennykh natsiy. on aktivno rabotayet v ryade krupnykh uchrezhdeniy oon.