dog sled, dog sleigh, dogsled - a sled pulled by dogs

British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations - an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and its dependencies and many former British colonies that are now sovereign states but owe allegiance to the British Crown

NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization - an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security

Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS - Canada's main foreigh intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government

Communications Security Establishment, CSE - Canadian agency that gathers communications intelligence and assist law enforcement and security agencies

CISC, Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada - an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies

Department of Justice Canada, DoJC - an agency of the Canadian government that provides litigation and legal advice and opinions to the government

Security Intelligence Review Committee, SIRC - an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies

North American country, North American nation - a country on the North American continent

Baffin Island - the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay

Canadian Maritime Provinces, Maritime Provinces, Maritimes - the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Alberta - one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals

British Columbia - a province in western Canada

Manitoba - one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada

Newfoundland and Labrador - a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949

Northwest Territories - a territory in northwestern Canada

Nunavut - an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago

Arctic Archipelago - all the islands that lie north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle

Ontario - a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada

Toronto - the provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)

Quebec - the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British

Saskatchewan - one of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada; "vast fields of wheat grow on Saskatchewan's prairies"

Yukon Territory, Yukon - a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s

Columbia, Columbia River - a North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring

Great Lakes - a group of 5 lakes in central North America

Hudson Bay - an inland sea in northern Canada

Labrador Peninsula, Labrador-Ungava Peninsula - a peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador

Mackenzie River, Mackenzie - a Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea

Niagara River, Niagara - a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York

North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama

Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence - a North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic

Yukon, Yukon River - a North American river; flows into the Bering Sea