U.S vs. Canada

Differences and similarities

True or False

Americans and Canadians celebrate thanksgiving on the same day.

False!

• Thanksgiving Day in Canada has been a holiday on the second Monday of October since 1957. It is a chance for people to give thanks for a good harvest and other fortunes in the past year.

• Thanksgiving Day in the United States is a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November.

True of False

• Canadians and Americans use the same measurement system?

False

• Canada using the metric system that was applied 1971. which uses the measuring units such as meters and grams and adds prefixes like kilo, milli and centi to count orders of size.

• In the United States, they use the older Imperial system, where things are measured in feet, inches and pounds. The Imperial System is also called The British Imperial because it came from the British Empire.

True or False

• Boxing Day and Black Friday take place on 26th of December each year.

False

• Black Friday takes place in U.S the day after Thanksgiving. For 2016, Black Friday falls on Friday November 27th.

• Boxing day occurs in Canada the day after Christmas, on December 26th.

True of False

• Canada and U.S only have one official language, English.

False

• Canada has two official languages, English and French.

• U.S only has one official language, English.

True of False

• Americans drink soda while Canadians drink pop.

True!

• Weird… Eh?

True or False

• Canada and U.S have 11 provinces.

False!

• Canada has 10 Provinces and 3 Territories• U.S has 56 political divisions (50 States, 1

Federal District, and 5 major overseas territories)

True of False

• Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem for both U.S and Canada.

False

• Canada has two anthems, God Save the Queen (Royal Anthem), O Canada (National Anthem). O, Canada became the national anthem of Canada of July 1, 1980.

• Star-Spangled Banner was created in 1814.

True of False

• Basic healthcare is free in both Canada and U.S.

False

• Canada's health care system is a group of socialized health insurance plans that provides coverage to all Canadian citizens. It is publicly funded and administered on a provincial or territorial basis, within guidelines set by the federal government.

• U.S.A mainly offers private health care, which means everyone must pay for health services, unless it is covered by their employers.

True of False

• Canada and U.S both have Presidents?

False

• Canada has a Prime Minister, Canada adopted the title prime minister from Britain, which also provided the model for our government system.

• U.S has a president, who is elected by the people and not by the parliament.

True or False

• Canada is seen as a more peaceful and welcoming country than U.S.

True

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJsiAz9qCmM

Americans respect their government more?

• Grabb’s research suggests that people in the U.S. display more trust and respect towards their government and politicians than Canadians do.

http://news.ubc.ca/2011/07/07/canadians-and-americans-are-more-similar-than-assumed/

How are they similar

• Can you think of some things that are similar in both U.S and Canada?

Similarities

• We wear similar clothes.• We eat similar foods.• We speak the same national language, English.• Our culture is made up of many different

cultures as well.

Who is the Canadian and who is the American? Can you tell? It is hard right!!

Venn diagram

Example

Directions

• You will label one circle U.S and another circle Canada. • You will write differences in each circle. So for U.S side,

you will write how U.S is different than Canada. On the Canada side, you will write how Canada is different than U.S.

Example: U.S side- U.S has a president, Canada side- Canada has a Prime Minister. In the middle section that is overlapping, you will write similarities. Example, They both have English as their national language.