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ATTRACTIVE CITIES OF CANADA 3

SIMO JELAČA, Ph.D.

SUMMERSIDE

Walking along the streets with tree lined paths in front of the house is a dignified heritage that reveals much about this community. The Canadian City of Summerside on Prince Edward Island (PEI) is the second largest city in the province and has about 14-15 thousand inhabitants. The largest individual employer in the city is the Summerside Taxation Center of the Canadian Government, an agency that processes goods and services for the whole of Canada (GST). The city has renovated several offshore industrial sites, abandoned by rail and sea terminals during the 1990s, into a new park. Why not start a Summerside tour with a history lesson? In the center of the city, significant events from the past are displayed dramatically in large murals and visitors can learn more about the construction of ships and fishing.

Summerside has seven English schools: four primary schools, two middle schools and one high school. It also has a French public school. The provincial hospital is the main reference hospital in the western part of the province. The island's Celtic heritage is colorful and awaits it to be a subject at Piping College in Summerside.

City Summerside is supplied from 10 active wells, to ensure that it has enough clean and fresh water. Clean water for drinking is important for good health.

Summerside was officially registered as the city on April 1, 1877, and since April 1, 1995 it was merged with neighboring communities of St. Eleanor, Wolmot and a part of Sherbrooke.

Economy: Business Park Slemon Park (formerly CFB Summerside) gathers several air and transportation companies in former military facilities Vector Aerospace Engine Services and Atlantic Turbine, where repairs and overhauls of gas turbines for aircraft are performed. The main industrial branches in the province are agriculture, tourism and fishing.

The first inhabitants of the island were the Indians of the Micmac tribe. The highest point on PEI is Springtown 152 meters above sea level. The PEI Moto is "The small under the protection of the great".

NATUASHISH

Natuashish is an Innu community in the Newfoundland and Labrador provinces. The community is inhabited by Mushuau Innu First Nation people. Tennyson was founded in 2002 as a planned community hoping to solve social problems that followed the former Davis Inlet community, 15km away. The number of inhabitants of Natuashish from 2006 according to the census is only 706 persons. The report on the initial proposed Canadian government's plan for reconstruction and construction was unsuccessful. The community is still bothered by the abuse of alcohol and drugs. The government is accused of creating a system overburdened with bureaucracy, rather than adequately solving problems. The local Tribal Band is accused of corruption. It turned out that this management is selling drugs. The community's attempt to solve its problem with alcoholism was confirmed by a sub-legal act with the next referendum. The area from Cape Chidley to Torngat, along the coast, is predominantly inhabited by the Inuit people, with the small Innu community of Natuashish, as an exception. On the north coast is the most isolated region of Labrador, as it mostly comes off with motorbikes, ships and planes, which are the only modern modes of transport. The largest community in this region is Nain. Nunatsiavut is a self-governing Inuit region in Labrador founded on June 23, 2000. The area of the settlement encompasses the majority of Labradors in the northern coast, while land use is still under administration in central Labrador. Nain is the administrative center of Nunatsiavut.

ALERT

Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk region, is the northernmost permanently populated place in the world, at latitude 82 ° 30 '05 "north, 817 kilometers from the North Pole. During the official 2011 census, the Alerta population was reported as zero, but there are permanently present military and scientific personnel rotating in. Their research station, Cape Sheridan, is 10 km east of Alert.

Nunavut means "our country" in Inuit, in Inuktitut language.

Alert has many temporary residents, who host the military intelligence base, radio links of Canadian military forces, meteorological stations, global atmospheric measurement laboratories, and Alert Airport.

Alert is a very deserted place, a real desert, with less than 200 permanent employees. The terrain in the immediate vicinity is hilly. The land has been frozen for nearly ten months, and from vegetation only what grows in the polar desert grows. This vegetation consists of plants whose photosynthesis is fast, during a short summer, and which can survive in cold, sharp winters. Vegetation is found mainly in wet areas of bare lands or plants are planted in glass gardens. The land around Alert has had a layer of ice for almost a year, limiting the growth and survival of many plants and animals. Alert is a coastal place in which the soil consists mainly of shingles and rocks. Overall, with all of these features, one can definitely say that the Arctic is a tundra.

In August 2006, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Alert as part of his campaign to promote Canadian sovereignty in the north.

The Olympic Torch passed through Alert on November 9, 2009 on its way to the 2010 Winter Olympics Winter Games in Whistler.

Alert is located 12 km west of Cape Sheridan, on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, on the shores of the ice covered by Lincoln Sea. The closest city to this city is Nunavut Iqaluit is 2.022 km away.

Other places on Ellesmere Island are the research bases on Eureka and the Inuit community of Grease Fiord, 800 km southwest.

The Alert climate with a snow cover lasting 10 months a year, and sometimes throughout the year in protected areas, is difficult to tolerate for residents who come there temporarily. The hottest month, July, has an average temperature of 3.4 °C, and only July and August with an average above zero, and these are the months when over 90% of rainfall lasts. Alert is also a very dry place, the fourth most common in Nunavut, on average only 158.3 mm of precipitation a year, at least in any place in Nunavut. September is usually the month with the highest snowfall. February is the coldest month of the year and annual mean temperatures are -17.7 °C below zero. Alert is the second coldest city in Nunavut, after Eureka. The weather station and military position on the north coast of Elsmir is the northernmost community in North America. Turbot shrimps and Arctic Cher are fish that are exported from these parts to the world. There are more snowmobiles in Nunavut than cars. Snowmobiles are the main mode of transport.

Delivery of large community items during a short flight is exclusively by ship (construction material, permanent food and vehicles).

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) provide police services to Nunavut, in all 25 communities. Nunavut is administered by a legislative assembly of 19 elected members. Members elect a leader of the government, president of the house and eight ministers by consensus. It has 10 departments with offices in nine different communities.

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