Canada shares a 5,525 mile long border with the United States, which is the most sizable voluminous border not patrolled by military forces. The majority of the Canadian population lives within 185 miles from the international border. Canada’s total land area includes thousands of adjacent islands. Canada is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, Greenland to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the United States to the south, and the Pacific Ocean and Alaska to the west. Canada is often considered a country of the far north; however the peninsula of southern Ontario juts deep into the heartland of the United States, and its southernmost point, Middle Island in Lake Erie is on the same latitude line of northern California. (Bercuson, Hall, Krueger, Morton & Nicholson, 2017). Canada has a wide variety of land featuring astronomical maritime terrains, more lakes and inland waters than any other country, thousands of islands, and the most immensely colossal coastline in the world. There are many paramount landforms, including the Appalachian Mountains, the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and dozens of volcanoes along the Pacific Ring of Fire (“North America”, 2017). Canada is so astronomically immense that it has a wide variety of weather, from the extreme cold in northern Canada, to the milder temperatures of southern …show more content…
These included ordnance, infantry, auxiliary and mounted units. Even though the substructure of the Army was composed at the commencement of the war, the Canadian Army emerged from the conflict as a well-rounder fighting force. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, France and Britain would declare war on Germany. Canada would later declare war on Italy and Japan, afore the United States declared war. In the European theatre, the Canadian Army played a consequential role in Normandy, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands. More than 45,000 Canadians died and another 55,000 were wounded during the Second World War (“History and Heritage”,