How many states does Canada have?

Question

How many states does Canada have?

Answer 1

I hate to admit that I don't know, but don't let the Canuks know

that us Yanks don't know provinces from states --o.k. ?

Answer 2

adanac sah on setats uoy tnarongi knay

Answer 3

Canada has 10 provinces, 3 territories.

Provinces: Newfoundland and Labrador

Prince Edward Island

Nova Scotia

New Brunswick

Quebec

Ontario

Manitoba

Saskatchewan

Alberta

British Columbia

Territories:

Nunavut

North West Territories

Yukon

No states

Answer 4

no states only provinces

Answer 5

Zero.  Canada has provinces.

Answer 6

God what a stupid question, if you're American, I feel sorry for you, you've lived beside Canada probably your whole life, yet you are so ignorant that you don't even know we have PROVINCES, not states. Seriously, look at a map once and a while, you're embarrassing yourself with this question.

Answer 7

who cares?

Answer 8

We have the same number of presidents as we do states.

Answer 9

None

Answer 10

none, only an idiot doesn't know that canada has provinces

Answer 11

Canada has no 'states' in the same sense that you might think of it in the US. We are divideded into geographical regions in a somewhat similar manner. On the east coast we have the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador(which was discovered by Viking explorers 1000 years before Columbus sailed in 1492. Then there is Nova Scotia (New Scotland); Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick(NB). N.B. is connected to Nova Scotia by the Tantramar Marshes. Until recently Prince Edward Island was reachable only by ferry-now it is connected by an impressive bridge across the Northumberland Strait between NB and the Island.

   New Brunswicks western border is the state of Maine. To the North is the Province of Quebec following the flow of the St Lawrence River to the sea. Further west is Ontario-the provincial capital of Ontario is Toronto right on the shores of lake Ontario. Further north in Ontario is the capital of the Canadian federation Ottawa. Ottawa is I guess the Canadian equivalent of Washington DC.

      At Confederation in 1867 four provinces joined to form the dominion of Canada New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario. The other provinces have joined since that time.

    One thing that is different here is that when our father's of Confederation were trying to determine how the union should be formed they looked south of the border to see how your union was functioning.  During the negotiations the US was deeply torn by the horror of the civil war.  Our politicians decided that a strong central government was preferable given the problems they saw-so our federal government in Ottawa has 'residual power'.  Central government is stronger than provincial authority. Over time this has allowed Ottawa to institute national programs applicaple in all provinces-including universal health care, unemployment insurance.....

Over the next several decades Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia joined with the original provinces until the dominion stretched across the continent.

  The last province to join was Newfoundland in 1949-until then it had been a British protectorate.  The vast northern regions of the country - Yukon and Northwest territories do not have full provincial status although this is changing for the eastern regions of the North.

I hope this helps a bit-each province has a 'provincial capital' and our constitution divides powers between the provinces and the federal government in sections 92 and 93 of the Canada Act of 1867....and the years each province joined has become a different component of the constitutution.

In recent years our constitutution was patriated with an enshrined Charter of Rights.(1982) I remember watching the ceremony with great pride.Until that time our 'Constitution was in fact kept in London-because unlike the American colonies Canada had remained under british rule. Our Constitution was actually an act of the British Parlaiment-sounds funny, but they did not interfer with the operation of the dominion  and patriation was largely symbolic.

   I hope this helps and maybe gets you interested in getting to know your closest neighbours a bit better.

Cindy