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Like the maple leaf, the beaver is a symbol of Canada's unity. Maple trees grow in all ten provinces and three territories. Beavers live in all ten provinces and three territories.
Furthermore, the beaver is a symbol of industiousness. It is always busy building dams and tending to them.
The beaver is also an important Canadian historical icon. Beaver pelts were an important trade item and the source of wealth in the early days of what is now Canada.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe felt made from beaver pelts (skin and fur) were used in European hats. Beavers from the New World were of a very high quality and commanded the highest price. So high that a single ship load of beaver pelts could pay for the ship itself, making the risks worth the profit.
That drive for profit lead to the creation of trading forts in Hudson's Bay, and then deep inland. That brought Europeans deep into the heart of what is today Western Canada to explore, trade, settle and eventually colonize.
Beavers or rather killing them, built Canada.
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∙ 11y agoThe official symbol of Canada, which is on the Canadian flag, is a maple leaf. Beavers are associated with Canada but are not the symbol of Canada. Beaver pelts were literally the first commercial product exported from the part of North America that would eventually become Canada, and were the economic basis for the original wave of European Immigration to Canada, so there is no question that beavers have played an important role in Canadian history. Note that the beaver pelts were used to make felt for hats, they were not sewn together into beaver fur coats. Today there is no longer any market for beaver felt. Fashion is very quirky.
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∙ 13y agoBeavers were and are also important for their fur that keeps us canadians warm during out cold winter months!
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∙ 10y agothey made the symbols of the beaver in Canada because there a lot of beavers.
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∙ 12y agoit is our national animal.
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Do beavers live in other places than Canada?
No, beavers only live in Canada. they have alot of beavers in Burns Bog. There are beavers in Canada and the US as well as populations in Europe and Asia.
Why were the beavers important to the fur trade in Canada?
in Egland beaver skins were sold for hude profits
What countries beavers live in?
Canada
Why was the beaver war important for Canada?
beaver are important because they are a part of the ecosystem and keep Canada's food chain balanced they are a national symol and represent us they are on the nickel because of there animalness. i like beavers
Why are beavers important?
there not
What continent and countries does beavers liv in?
North America. US and Canada.
Where do Beavers live in the world?
Canada And some of the United States. (-:
What country has maple leaf mountains and beavers?
Canada
Why beavers are important to natural?
Beavers very impotant. Beavers build damns and snuff. THey gots a big axx tail. they fluffy.
Why is the beaver on the Canadian 5 cents?
The beaver is a symbol of Canada because that animal was very important to the country's early economy. Trappers went across the country to hunt them and bring back the pelts for use in clothing.
Why is the beavers so important to Canada?
beavers are important because Canada had lots of them back in the 16-1700's and still now and lots of people did trades for them Europeans and Americans and all sorts of nations that's why the beaver is so important The Answer above is O.K. but the truth is that a Beaver create's a dam by chopping down trees with its teeth. These dams make creeks and rivers into small ponds and small lakes. Thus creating homes, waterhole's and habitat for other creatures (land dwelling and aquatic)
Where in Canada do beavers live?
The beaver lives near wooded streams. Beavers are found in most parts of Canada ( the north, the west and on the prairies). In the rest of North America the beaver's range extends from Alaska to the southern United States.
