Unique Regions of Canada Trivia Quiz

A picturesque wine region in southern British Columbia, the Okanagan Valley stretches through the city of Kelowna and the smaller towns of Vernon and Penticton. Known for its beautiful weather and its stunning lakeside views, its climate and soil put it into an ecological zone that happens to be ideal for viticulture.

Some of Canada's most famous wines are from this area. Naturally, this also makes the region popular as a vacation destination and a retirement spot.

A massive expanse of the Canadian north, the Ungava region (and peninsula) is found in Northern Quebec and Labrador and is, for the most part, uninhabited save for Indigenous and First Nations settlements, especially Inuit towns. Part of the Canadian Shield, the region gives way quickly to nearly treeless tundra and permafrost. Though rarely visited in the modern era, the region's settlements (like Kuujjuaq) have historically been used by Hudson's Bay Company fur traders. Anywhere north of here would be considered the Arctic.

Nestled between the North Mountain and South Mountain ranges on the Nova Scotia peninsula, the Annapolis Valley, only a short drive from the Bay of Fundy, provides the perfect conditions for vineyards and apple orchards in a place where most wouldn't necessarily expect them. Located less than one hundred kilometres west of Halifax, this region is home to the sleepy communities of Wolfville, Kentville, and Berwick and backs onto the picturesque cliffs and capes that made the landscape of the original Acadian settlements.

Encompassing a stretch of ranch land and hills on the eastern edge of the Canadian Rockies, Kananaskis Country (or K-County) includes nearly a dozen Provincial Parks from the edge of Banff to the north to the Don Getty Wildlands due west of Calgary. The beautiful landscape here has evolved to be multi-use.

While Alberta has long been a province of industry, logging, mining, and oil extraction, Kananaskis is also a region of leisure, adventure excursions, and outdoor activity.

Surrounding the westernmost shores of Lake Ontario, this region includes Toronto and most outlying, major cities of Canada's largest provincial capital. Reaching from as far east as Peterborough to as far south, around the lake, as Niagara Falls, it's the home of more than half of the province and a fifth of the nation as a whole.

The Greater Golden Horseshoe area, to some, reaches as far north as Lake Huron, a fair reach up the Ontario Peninsula to the upper Great Lakes.

Kluane National Park and Reserve is found in the southwest corner of the Yukon Territory along the edge where the border meets with Alaska and British Columbia. Found west of Haines Junction it's a virtually empty expanse of protected wilderness on the long and winding route that eventually heads north, then west to Anchorage on the Alaskan coast.

The reserve here contains Mount Logan, the tallest mountain in Canada, and the massive Donjek Glacier.

The large landmass jutting the furthest off of Newfoundland, the home to the capital city of St. John's, is also known as the Avalon Peninsula, named as such by Sir George Calvert, who used it to recall the famous island from the stories of King Arthur. Today, it marks the extreme east point of Canada (at Cape Spear) and contains half of its province's population (and that includes Labrador on the mainland).

Its location has made it, historically, a prime spot for the fishing and shipping industries.

Scattered throughout the Saint Lawrence River between Toronto and Montreal, the Thousand Island archipelago is a bit of a misnomer since there are technically almost two thousand islands along this vital waterway. Technically filling only about eighty kilometres of the river's length, the region's isles vary in size from small enough for a single house to larger expanses fit for campgrounds and resort stays. And yes, it's believed that Thousand Island salad dressing is from this region.

Although historically known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, this archipelago off the coast of British Columbia has long been home to the Haida Nation-- we're talking more than ten thousand years before European settlers made it this far across the continent.

It's a fascinating reach of the country, home not only to a number of endemic protected species, but also mild, verdant forests that have thrived due to warm climate patterns coming off the Pacific. Visitors would typically need to take a ferry from Prince Rupert or a charter flight from Vancouver to get there.

Resting on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence in Quebec's Laurentian Mountain range, Charlevoix is one of the province's lesser-known gems. What visitors can find there is a rugged, generally grassy landscape shaped not only by glaciation and its formation of the Canadian Shield, but of a notable meteorite impact back in the Paleozoic Era. What resulted is a stretch of the province that sometimes feels like a southern tundra and sometimes feels like an agricultural haven as the Saint Lawrence feeds westward, splitting into the Saguenay and Malbaie Rivers.