Facts about Canada

  • The national anthem, “O Canada”, was proclaimed on July 1,1980

 

  • Canada has six time zones! We also observe daylight savings time, which means that we set our clocks back one hour on the first Sunday of November and forward one hour on the second Sunday of March. For a look at Canada’s time zones click here
  • “Canada Day”, Canada’s national day, is celebrated on July 1st. The name and date for each of Canada’s public holidays can be found here
  • The British Monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II, is Canada’s Head of State

    (Source: Archives of Ontario)

 

  • Basketball was invented by a Canadian, Dr. James Naismith
  • 31% of Canada is covered by forests making it the third most forested country after Russia and Brazil
  • The Canadian dollar coin is called the “Loonie” (for the loon pictured on the face side of the coin) and two dollar coin is called the “Toonie”

(Source: bcpassport.com)

 

  • Canada’s military aerobatic team, the Snowbirds (see video below), have flown 1600 air shows over 29 seasons for an audience of over 87 million North Americans!

(Source: YKF Airport)

 

  • Canada is the second largest country in the world
  • On April 17, 1982 Canada became a fully sovereign nation

(Source: Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages)

 

  • High-performance bathtub races are held annually in Nanaimo, British Columbia!
  • Mount Logan is Canada’s highest mountain measuring 5,959 metres in height, and is named after the founder of the Geological Survey of Canada, Sir William Edmond Logan
  • Kids from around the world can write a letter to Santa, and receive a reply, through Canada Post

(Source: Canada Post)

 

  • One of Canada’s greatest accomplishments is the Canadarm; read about it here
  • The capital city of Canada is Ottawa
  • The first UFO landing pad in the world was built in 1967 in St. Paul, Alberta
  • Canada has ten provinces and three territories
  • Six million immigrants are included in Canada’s population of 34 million
  • 20% of the world’s freshwater is in Canada
  • Canada has many of the best places to view the northern lights
  • The Canadian flag was first raised over Parliament Hill on February 15, 1965
  • In Canada it is illegal to move alcohol from one province to another without permission
  • Canadian inventions include the zipper, telephone, and heart pacemaker among others that you can find here
  • A national emblem of Canada is the beaver

 

 

  • Canada’s longest national road is the Trans-Canada Highway which stretches from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John’s, Newfoundland
  • The Trans-Canada Highway includes wildlife crossing structures: 22 wildlife underpasses and 2 wildlife overpasses nearBanff National Park have reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by more than 80% and by more than 96% just for elk and deer
  • English and French are both official languages in Canada
  • Québec supplies 80% of the world’s maple syrup. In 2012, a massive heist occurred in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Québec involving $18 million worth of maple syrup
  • Canada and the United States share the longest border between two countries

(Source: NBC)

 

  • The only place in the world to have two exclamation points in its name is Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Québec
  • Hockey is Canada’s national winter sport; lacrosse is the national summer sport
  • Canada’s official motto is: A mari usque ad mare (From sea to sea)
  • Canada is a diamond producing nation
  • Canada’s most populous cities are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver

(Source: Top List Videos)

 

  • Canadians Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin for the treatment of diabetes in 1922 and were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, in 1923. For more great Canadian scientific discoveries click here
  • Thanks to Saskatchewan producers, Canada is one of the world’s largest exporters of mustard seeds
  • Nowhere else in the world can you see the most snakes in a single glance than in Manitoba at the Narcisse Snake Dens
  • Great Bear Rainforestin British Columbia is one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests left in the world
  • The OECD Better Life Index says “Canada is a top-performing country in terms of the quality of its educational system.”
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