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______________________________________________________________________________Stewart McKelveyDoing Business in Atlantic CanadaBasic Facts: CanadaCHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTIONCanada, the world’s second largest country, occupies the upper portion of the North American continent.Its boundaries stretch from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east, to the ArcticOcean in the north and to the USA in the south. It is a federation of 10 provinces and three territories andhas a population of approximately 33 million people. English and French are the official languages ofCanada, meaning that they have equal status in all federal institutions and are the languages usedofficially by the federal government.Canada’s four most easterly provinces form the region known as Atlantic Canada. These provinces are(from west to east) New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.Atlantic Canada has a population of approximately 2.3 million people.Page 1