MARS - CANADA

Canada

Ce mois ci, les élèves de la 4eme7 vous emmènent au Canada. Ils vous font découvrir la ville des sports d'hiver et des jeux olympiques de Calgary, les monuments de Vimy et les Inukshuks Inuits, le cinéma avec le réalisateur James Cameron, l'équipe de Hockey nationale, le groupe de rock Nickelback et le jazzman Oscar Peterson, les recettes de la soupe de pois et des queues de castor, sans oublier la fabrication du sirop d'érable et sans oublier les impressionnantes sculptures de glace de Lake Louise.

Bonne lecture.

Miss Kahel

CANADA - City

            Calgary

Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of ​​hills and plates

80 km east of the Rocky Mountains. Third city of Canada in terms of population, there were about 1.2 million inhabitants in 2014 which puts it fifth among Canadian cities.

The "Calgary-Edmonton corridor" is the most populous urban area between Toronto and Vancouver. It derives its name from a beach on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. The inhabitants are called Calgarians. Calgary is a destination well known for winter sports, agriculture, tourism and high technology, which also contribute to a rapid economic development of the city.

Calgary also hosts several major annual festivals, including the Calgary Stampede, the Folk Music Festival, the Lilac Festival, GlobalFest and the second Caribbean culture festival in importance of the country (Carifest).

Today, Calgary is a modern city that still retains much of its traditional culture, including hotel saloons, western-bars, and ice hockey. After its revival in the 1990s, the city has also become the center of country music in Canada; it is so called the "Nashville of the North". Calgary also has a music scene including all genres like pop, rock, hip-hop and country.

The Calgary Folk Music Festival (also known as the "Calgary Folk Fest") is a show that always takes place at the end of July each year at Island Park Prince and includes folk music artists, for example Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright.

A Monument to visit? : The Famous Five.

These are five Canadian women who in 1927, as part of a law suit, petitioned against the Supreme Court of Canada, asking to establish an equality between men and women in official documents.

 Bridgeland neighborhood: (formerly known as Shore)

It is bounded to the south by the arc River, in the east by Deerfoot trail, in the the west by the road to Emonton and north by the Renfrew community. This community is a mixture of residential condominiums, parks and single family homes. Bridgeland contains a variety of restaurants, retail shopping, offices, financial services, churches and schools.

There, you can find the Calgary Zoo, the World of Science, bridges developing urban renewal and access to the largest network of the city walking trails (River trail of Arc) and unique looking are worth visiting in this area.

Mohamed

CANADA - Monuments

Le Mémorial de Vimy

 The Vimy Memorial is a monument that was built in 1996 to honor the memory of the Canadian soldiers who died in France during World War II. This is in honour of the Canadian troops who won the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917. The two white-tower-memorial dominates the plain of approximately 110 meters. The monument is constructed of a very rare white stone, the Seget stone, chosen by Walter Alward , whose only known quarry is located on the island of Brac, Croatia. The Battle of Vimy is a founding event of the Canadian nation. The Vimy Memorial was renovated recently by Queen Elizabeth II .

 

The Inukshuk

The Inukshuk is a stone pile built by the Inuit people in the Arctic
 regions of North America, from Alaska to Greenland, 
through the Canadian Arctic. Its shape and size vary. 
According to the head of the Taamasi Inuits,  
Qumaq nicknamed "The Unuksuk were spotted and used for places
 where Caribous marched in large numbers. 
When there were several Inukshuk together, 
we called them the 'Nallinu', they indicated the point on the shore
 where caribous crossed the lake. 
When the caribous were swimming, before they got to shore,
 hunters began to attack them with a harpoon. 
Among the Inuits, the Inukshuks have played an important role 
in traditional caribou hunting. They were like stone scarecrows 
to attract caribous in a cul-de-sac, an ambush site on a hill.
 Hunters armed with bows and arrows were hidden behind. 
Women and children were used as beaters. 
The Inukshuk could also serve as a landmark or a cairn, 
an identifying point to show the position of a food cache.

Laura and Paule

CANADA - Cinema

James Francis Cameron

 James Francis Cameron was born on August 16^th, 1954 in Kapuskasing (Ontario), he is 60, he was born in Canada and is of Canadian origin.

James Cameron is a director, screenwriter, producer and underwater explorer. He has directed, written or produced the films Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2 (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) and Avatar (2009).

His first success came in 1984 from the ashes of his first film "Piranha2 ».

Cameron began writing the Terminator scenario. It was filmed for $6 million. The film was produced by Gale Anne Hurd, who later became his wife. But long before this great success, Hollywood had noticed, and solicitations were multiplying.

Before shooting Terminator, he wrote the first version of Rambo 2: Mission, then rewritten by Sylvester Stallone. After a decade to revolutionize the special effects and endorse ever more innovative projects, James Cameron was still not satisfied.

Titanic

When producing Abyss in 1989, he accumulated extensive documentation about the tragic fate of the Titanic. The idea made its way and he worked to achieve what will prove to be the film of all excesses. Co-produced by two studios, "enemy brothers", 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures, the film, budgeted at $ 150 million, and ultimately cost more than $200 million, a new record. What was the most expensive was the manufacture of the Titanic. At that time, the ship was rebuilt almost identically. Many rumors circulated on the film, including that it would be a money pit, leading to certain bankruptcy the two studios that provided funding. James Cameron also had to sacrifice his salary as a director and revenue sharing in order to prove his faith in the project. Finally, Titanic was the biggest hit of film history with over $1.8 billion in revenue and the director was greatly rewarded financially at first, but also by eleven Academy Awards.

The film remained for 11 years the most successful film of the global box office.

The Titanic is an American drama film, written, produced and directed by James Cameron, released in 1997 and « emerged » in 3D in 2012 for the centenary of the sinking.

It tells the story of two passengers of the Titanic. Rose, who is a first-class passenger who attempts suicide to free herself from the constraints imposed by her entourage, and Jack, a penniless Irish guy who wins his ticket at the last minute in the third class to go to the United States. They meet by chance and live a troubled love story, endangered by the sinking of the ship.

Part of the film, faithful reconstruction of the sinking for instance, was developed with the help of two historians, Don Lynch and Ken Marschall. The film led to a renewed interest for the real Titanic ship which resulted in the publication or republication of numerous books on the subject.

Terminator

 

Terminator was released in 1984.

In 2029, an apocalyptic war is on against what remains of humanity, decimated by a nuclear holocaust. Machines endowed with artificial intelligence attempt to exterminate them. Two beings of that time are sent in the past, in 1984, in Los Angeles. One is a Terminator robot and a human proof sent by John Connor (son that Sarah should give birth in the near future) to protect his mother. The troops of Connor are about to triumph in 2029, the machines sent in the past the Terminator to kill Connor's mother, and prevent the birth of John Connor, "erasing" retroactively his existence and his actions.

Avatar

Avatar was released in 2009.

The action takes place in 2154 on Pandora, a moon of Polyphemus, a giant gas planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, covered with jungle, and is the scene of the clash between humans who came to take benefit from a rare mineral that could solve the energy crisis on Earth, and the indigenous population, the Naa'vi, who live in perfect harmony with their environment and try to defend themselves against the militarized invasion. A program created by the earth scientists, the « Avatar program », will allow them to control a Naa'vi body associated with cloned human genes to be inserted into the population and try to negotiate with it.

This project began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an 80-page script for the film. The beginning of the implementation was to begin in 1997, after the release of Titanic, but according to Cameron, the necessary technology to achieve his film was not yet available. Work resumed in the summer of 2005 and Cameron started to develop the script and its fictional universe in early 2006.

Anna & Chloé

CANADA - Music

Nickelback

 

Nickelback is a Canadian rock band. 
The group was created in Canada, it is composed of
 CHAD KROEGER on vocals and guitar among others.
 CHAD KROEGER was born on November 15th, 1974.
 He changed his last name to Kroeger. 
He learned to play the guitar alone, 
he is self-taught. 
Chad was pretty turbulent as a child. 
He went to a recovery center in Juneville 
at the age of 14. 
There is also Ryan Peake who plays the guitar 
and the piano, Mike Kroeger on bass, 
and Daniel Adair on drums. 
Nickelback's music is classified as hard rock, 
this is one of the groups with greatest 
commercial successes in Canada, 
having sold 50 million albums worldwide, 
they are ranked 11th among 
the best foreign sellers in the USA. 

They were just behind the Beatles

during the 2000s, classified as the rock band of the decade, their song "How you remind me" was number one in the US and Canadian charts at the same time. In 2001, Chad Kroeger started to "study each piece, every sound, every lyric, every musicality "He said," I would dissect every song I heard on the radio or each song I had already made good on a map and I would say "Why is this so good?" To record their third album "Silver Side Up" Nickelback has worked with producer Rick Parashar. The album was written before the release in the States and was recorded in a studio. The record was released on the 11^th of September 2001, the album reached number 2 in the Billboard 2001 with over 177,000 copies sold the first week. It also reached number two on the Adult Top 40 and became number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001. The next single was « Too Bad », which also reached number one on the Mainstream Rock Chart.In 2014, Nickelback announced the release of an eighth album. The group is currently touring the world.

 

Mathieu & Morgan D