Canada

Canada is a country located in North America. It extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west and north to the Arctic Ocean, sharing a border with the United States of America to the south and northwest.

In Canadian English-speaking Canada, a variety of English used in Canada. The Canadian English term is first used in a speech of the Rev. A. Constable Geikie in 1857. Geikie, a Scottish-born Canadian, was referring to language as a dialect corrupt, compared to the English spoken by immigrants from Britain.
In Canada, the quintessential sport is ice hockey. Ice hockey was invented in Canada in the nineteenth century by European immigrants who adapted the field hockey and other sports such as hurling or shinty to the climate of the area. The first matches, friendlies were played between British soldiers in the regions of Ontario and Nova Scotia on frozen water surfaces such as rivers and lakes. At first they played with sticks semicircular rubber ball. The sport achieved much popularity throughout Canada, where he achieved a rapid expansion, and because of all the people who practiced it, the city of Montreal hosted the first tournament of ice hockey in the Winter Fair in the city, 1883.