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66 unusual facts about Canada


150!Canada

The concept is based on the Canadian Centennial year celebrations which helped to define Canada’s modern identity.

Agricultural diversification

Farmers in several countries, including Canada, India, Kenya, Mozambique, and Sri Lanka have already initiated diversification as a response to climate change.

Association of Legal Writing Directors

The Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD), formed in 1996, is a non-profit professional association of directors and former directors of legal research, writing, analysis, and advocacy programs from law schools in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Avon Lodge railway station

Avon Castle became the seat of the Earl of Egmont from 1912 to 1938, although after 1932 the family saw little use for their private halt as the 11th Earl preferred to spend his time in Canada.

Baron Revelstoke

The City of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada was renamed in honour of Edward Charles Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, commemorating his role in securing the financing necessary for completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Canada and the United States presidential elections

Canadians have long closely followed United States presidential elections and the outcomes of these elections have always affected Canada in areas such as trade, mutual defence and diplomatic relations.

Canada Clause

A clause in the Charlottetown Accord that would have recognized the province of Quebec as a distinct society within Canada, aboriginal rights, sex equality and other principles; or

Canada: The Great Experiment

Fans of the Canadian-made soap opera Strange Paradise knew Colin Fox best in a dual role as Jean Paul Desmond and his ancient ancestor Jacques Eloi Des Mondes.

Canada's Golgotha

In 2002 British documentary maker Iain Overton alleged that the crucified soldier did exist, and named him as Sergeant Harry Band (not "Brant").

Canada's Hundred Days

There they were stationed in the villages of Fouquescourt, Maucourt, Chilly and Hallu from which they would attack eastward toward the Hindenburg Line.

Canada's Next Great Prime Minister

Representatives of Magna International, The Dominion Institute, CBC and the Fulbright Program selected four contestants to appear on the show after a cross-country university campus tour.

Canadian college and university students were asked to submit a 2,500-word essay on what they would do as Prime Minister of Canada.

The show aired March 2007 and was judged by four former Canadian Prime Ministers: Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, Joe Clark, and Paul Martin.

The 2005 winner, and the recipient of a $50,000 first-place cash prize, was determined by four former Canadian Prime Ministers: Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, Joe Clark, and John Turner.

Canada's Top 20 Countdown

Canada's Top 20 Countdown is a Canadian weekly syndicated radio chart program based out of Montreal, Quebec.

The CHR/Hot AC and Rock version of Canada’s Top 20 are hosted by A. J. Reynolds.

Canada's Worst Driver 5

The Gimbal – The season's featured challenge (shown on Daily Planet after the first episode aired, with Daily Planet host Ziya Tong attempting the challenge) is one where the contestant must balance a stick-shift truck atop the gimbal, a swiveling platform with a hemispherical base.

Canada's Worst Driver Ever

Cam Woolley returning for his eighth year, is the traffic expert on CP24 in Toronto, and had a 25-year career as a traffic sergeant with the Ontario Provincial Police.

Shirley Sampson, 62, from Donkin, Nova Scotia, performed well for most of Canada's Worst Driver 7, only to find herself being named the worst after a terrible road test performance.

Canada's Worst Handyman 6

Charlene Hunt, from Pickering, Ontario, is an "idea gal", but when it comes to actual work, her husband is usually the one to step in and fix her errors.

Canadian Heritage Rivers System

The Canadian Heritage Rivers System (CHRS) was established in 1984 by the federal, provincial and territorial governments to conserve and protect the best examples of Canada's river heritage, to give them national recognition, and to encourage the public to enjoy and appreciate them.

Chapel Island Formation

The Chapel Island Formation is a sedimentary formation from the Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada.

Engineering Week

Engineering Week (Canada), an annual event held by engineering schools throughout Canada.

Federal minority governments in Canada

In this instance, the NDP demanded the creation of Petro-Canada among other things to support the Liberals.

Foreign relations of Lebanon

Canada established diplomatic relations with Lebanon in 1954, when Canada deployed "Envoy Extraordinaire" to Beirut.

General Service Area

General Service Area is a term used by the Canadian province of Nova Scotia to describe the boundaries of areas that are communities or place names in Nova Scotia.

Gordon Jennings Laing

Gordon Jennings Laing (October 16, 1869 – September 1, 1945) was an American classical scholar, born in London, Ontario, Canada.

Hockley Valley

The Hockley Valley Resort is a ski retreat, golf course, conference centre, and hotel in Mono, Ontario, Canada.

Hudson Complex

The Hudson Complex is a marine ecoregion in Canada, part of the Arctic marine realm.

Icebreaker International

Continuing their alliance with NATOarts — an organization that "seeks to promote global security and stability through the exhibition of works of conceptual art" — the duo boarded a container ship named Trein Maersk in early 2000, spending two months on the ship during its journey from Japan to Canada recording an audio document promoting free international trade.

Like the Rush song of the same name, the record took its name from (and was inspired by) the radar stations located at the edges of Canada and Alaska that warned NATO members states of possible Soviet nuclear strikes.

International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor

The International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor is a supercorridor linking highways in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

ITASE

As a result, nineteen nations worldwide, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the United States, teamed up to study the surface and subsurface record of Antarctica’s ice cores.

Machinery of government

A number of national governments including those of Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom have adopted the term in official usage.

Maison Radio-Canada

It is also the main studio for television stations CBMT-DT and CBFT-DT and radio stations CBME-FM, CBM-FM, CBF-FM and CBFX-FM.

Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada

The Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau instituted attempts to assert domestic economic control such as the creation of Petro-Canada, meant to assert Canadian control of the energy sector, and the Foreign Investment Review Agency, intended to review and limit foreign ownership and particularly American takeovers of Canadian companies.

Microsoft Office 2000

All retail editions of Office 2000 sold in Australia, Brazil, China, France, and New Zealand and academic copies sold in Canada and the United States required the user to activate the product via the Internet.

MiWay

Canada's Wonderland
seasonal only

Myra Falls

Myra Falls, Canada, a waterfall at Buttle Lake, Vancouver Island, Canada

Nicolas Jacquin

Nicolas Jacquin (or Nicolas Philibert) (1700 – 21 January 1748) was a Canadian merchant trader and the hero of

North American Defence College

The North American Defence College is the name given to a periodic meeting of top military, industrial, and government leaders in North America, particularly Canada and The United States.

Paramedic Association of Canada

The PAC has a voluntary membership of over 14,000 paramedicine practitioners across Canada.

Paul Lafrance

Lafrance has been a host on several shows, including Decked Out, Deck Wars, and is a celebrity judge on the second season of Canada's Handyman Challenge.

Pelmorex

Pelmorex was chosen to be one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in 2002 by Mediacorp Canada Inc. and recognized for its leadership in broadcasting for employment equity in a cover story by Maclean's.

Petro-Canada

In 2006, the company entered the mobile phone market with a prepaid service called Petro-Canada Mobility.

Philippe Létourneau

Létourneau served as an expert in the Discovery Channel Canada television series Canada's Worst Driver for seasons Canada's Worst Driver from season 3 to the latest season 8, as well as the Discovery Channel program Star Racer.

Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood

The acclaimed biography took ten years to complete and was published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross in Canada and by the University Press of Kentucky in the United States.

Pipestone River

Pipestone River is the name of several rivers in Canada.

Quadripartite Agreement

Quadripartite Agreement (1947) was a secret pact signed by Britain, the United States, Canada, and Australia as a follow on from World War II cooperation on intelligence matters.

Race to Mars

The first part aired on Discovery Channel Canada and its High Definition channel on September 23, 2007 and the second part on September 30.

Real-time gross settlement

Canada - LVTS (Large Value Transfer System) (This is actually an RTGS Equivalent system. Final settlement happens in the evening.)

Ronald John Baker

Ronald John Baker (March 28, 1912 – March 24, 1990) was a pioneering Canadian engineer.

Sackville, Nova Scotia

Sackville can refer to several different communities in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia located along the Sackville River.

Salendine Nook

John Morton and Samuel Brighouse were two of The Three Greenhorns who emigrated to Canada in 1862 and bought land in the area that today is known as the West End, Vancouver.

Sid Boyling

Sid Boyling (May 9, 1914 – November 5, 2006) was a Canadian broadcaster.

Single-issue politics

Some examples of single-issue parties are the party formed to protest against the increase in politician wages, the Bloc Québécois party in Canada, formed to call for the separation of Quebec, and the Party for the Animals, which gained two seats in the Dutch parliament in 2006.

Skin cancer

Australia and New Zealand exhibit one of the highest rates of skin cancer incidence in the world, almost four times the rates registered in the United States, the UK and Canada.

Smart Border Declaration

The Smart Border Declaration was a binational deal signed on December 12, 2001 between the United States and Canada.

Social problems in Chinatown

In modern times, competing Asian street gangs and organized crime, such as the tongs and the Hong Kong-based triads, continue to plague the metropolitan Chinatowns worldwide where Triads have their operations, including London, United Kingdom; San Francisco, California; New York City, Sydney, Australia, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Spectacle Island Game Sanctuary

The Spectacle Island Game Sanctuary is a protected area in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Tartu College

Tartu College is an independently owned and maintained student residence on the north side of Bloor Street West, just east of Madison Avenue, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This Dragon Won't Sleep

This Dragon Won't Sleep is the title of a recording by Canadian guitarist Don Ross, released in 1995.

Three Hands

Three Hands is the title of a recording by Canadian guitarist Don Ross, released in 1992.

Vanderveen

Vanderveen is a rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, founded in 2003 by songwriters Matt Thomas and Phil Bockstael.

Worst Driver television franchise

Canada's Worst Handyman, is Canada's Worst Driver's sister show, both hosted by Andrew Younghusband.

YFD

YFD is the IATA airport code for Brantford Airport near Brantford, Ontario, Canada.


1976 Winter Olympics

Denver officially withdrew on November 15, and the IOC then offered the games to Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of government following elections.

Aerodrome

The Canadian Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) says "...for the most part, all of Canada can be an aerodrome", however there are also "registered aerodromes" and "certified airports".

Andre Champagne

Andre Joseph Orius Champagne (born September 19, 1943 in Eastview, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger.

Anna's Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbirds are found along the western coast of North America, from southern Canada to northern Baja California, and inland to southern Arizona.

Arthur Procter

Arthur Thomas Procter (1886–1964), lawyer, judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Belle Mahone

Bred and raced by Canada's preeminent owner/breeder, distilling magnate Joseph E. Seagram, Belle Mahone was sired by Ypsilanti, an American grandson of the British runner Galopin, winner of the 1875 Epsom Derby and a three-time Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland.

Benjamin Hinman

Although ravaged by sickness, his regiment was the nucleus of the army led to Canada by General Montgomery and was present at the battle of St. Johns, the reduction of Montreal, and siege of Quebec.

Canada 2014

Canada 2014 is the name of a concert tour by the Buffalo-based rock band Goo Goo Dolls, in support of their album Magnetic.

Canada–France relations

While the gradual conquest of New France by the British, culminating in Wolfe's victory at the Plains of Abraham in 1759, deprived France of her North American empire, the 'French of Canada' - Québécois or habitants, Acadians, Métis, and others - remained.

CFBN

The station, owned by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, aired a business news format syndicated from Canada's Business Network, as well as some travel and weather information reports for Toronto Pearson International Airport.

CHOV

CHRO-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CHOV-TV from 1961 to 1977

CKPG

CKDV-FM, a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, which held the call sign CKPG from February 1946 to May 2003

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Dave Gunning

The track "A Game Goin' On" from Gunning's album No More Pennies was submitted to the Great Canadian Song Quest (2013 edition: Hockey Night In Canada Song Quest).

Declan Hicks

Declan is involved in many various forms of motorsport, and was recently part of a team building and racing a Power Tool Drag Racer to race in the Silverline tools Challenge, soon to be seen on the Discovery Canada magazine show Daily Planet, with his team-mates Jon Lawes and Ben Short.

Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire

It is also famous for being the birthplace of the Anglo-Canadian poet and literary scholar, Robin Skelton (1925–97).

Economy of Hamilton, Ontario

Bunge is an oilseed processing plant and Canada’s largest canola processor.

Everline

The system is identical to AirTrain JFK in New York City and the Vancouver Sky Train in Canada, using Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit vehicles controlled by Bombardier CITYFLO 650 automatic train control technology.

First Nations Bank of Canada

First Nations Bank of Canada plans to expand its Community Banking Centres to Baker Lake, Kugluktuk, and Pond Inlet in 2014.

Footprints Recruiting

Footprints Recruiting is an ESL teacher placement agency headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Gabriel Varga

He returned to the ring on January 8, 2011 at a Canada vs. China event in Jinan, China where he won by unanimous decision under sanshou rules.

Garney Henley

Henley was drafted in 1960 by the NFL's Green Bay Packers in the 15th round (173rd overall), but chose to head to Canada, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

George Leith

George Gordon Leith (1923–1996), a politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Graham Letto

During the Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2003, he ran in the provincial riding of Labrador West as the Progressive Conservative candidate, but was defeated by Randy Collins of the NDP.

Henry Frederick Stephenson

On 30 March 1866 Stephenson was the lieutenant-in-command of HMS Heron, serving in North America and the West Indies, and becoming the commanding officer of a gun-boat on the Canadian lakes during the Fenian raids of 1866.

Hillside Beach, Manitoba

During the fur trading expeditions of the Voyageurs and Coureur des bois the lagoon was part of a portage for traveling between the Winnipeg River and Lake Winnipeg en route from French eastern Canada to the Red River Valley, avoiding the long often choppy route around Elk Island.

Julius Grey

Grey defended La servante écarlate by Margaret Atwood, the French version of The Handmaid's Tale, in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004.

Kanatak

Kanatak Lake (or Kanata Lakes), a neighbourhood officially referred to as Marchwood-Lakeside within the northern section of Kanata, Ontario, Canada.

L'Église réformée du Québec

L'Église Réformée du Québec, or "Reformed Church of Quebec", is a small conservative French-speaking Reformed Christian denomination located primarily within the Canadian province of Quebec.

Legal status of animals in Canada

When the Conservative Party came to power in 2006, MP Mark Holland tabled a private member’s bill that was virtually identical to Bill C-50, the most recent incarnation of C-17.

MacGillivray's Warbler

MacGillivray's Warblers are migratory and spend their summers in temporate forests located in the western United States, and in boreal forests of west Canada.

Maelstrom

Skookumchuck Narrows is a tidal rapids that develops whirlpools, on the Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), Canada.

Marisa Lang

Lang was born in Trieste, Italy and lived there for brief periods during her youth but spent the majority of her life in Toronto, Canada.

Masajiro Miyazaki

Miyazaki was born in the vicinity of Hikone City in Japan and moved to Canada in 1913 with his father.

Mia Dyson

The following year (2006), Mia toured the USA and Canada, joined Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention on stage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and supported Ani Di Franco in New York's Central Park.

Michael Henry Herbert

He created with the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay a joint commission to establish the border between the U.S. district of Alaska and British interests in the Dominion of Canada, where gold had been found in the 1890s, which resulted in the definitive Alaskan boundary treaty of 1903.

Miki Sumiyoshi

She then moved to Vancouver in Canada, graduating from high school, and again to Japan, where she attended and graduated from International Christian University.

Montrose Swing Bridge

1910 to carry the Canada Southern Railway over the river (click the link to see a discussion of companies who used the Canada Southern tracks over the years).

National Search and Rescue Program

In 2005 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron at CFB Trenton re-equipped with the Griffon to replace its fleet of CH-149 Cormorants as a primary SAR helicopter for central Canada.

Number nine

Number 9 Audio Group, a recording studio located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Percy Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry

He went as a gold prospector to Kalgoorlie, Australia, during the gold rush beginning in 1893, and later managed a road house in Canada.

Primus Canada

Primus Canada offers a wide selection of consumer and business telecommunications services available nationwide including Internet, VoIP, Home Phone, Long Distance, Wireless, Hosting, Managed Services and Enterprise IP Telephony.

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.

Richard Monette

Upon his return to Canada in 1974, he took on the title role in the premiere of the English translation of Michel Tremblay's Hosanna at the Tarragon Theatre.

S. Narasinga Rao

He then moved to McMaster University in Canada where he received a second Master of Science degree in 1969 followed by a PhD in biophysics in 1973 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, through Center for Crystallographic Research, Roswell Park Memorial Institute.

Simon Schama's Power of Art

It aired in Poland on TVP2 in February and March 2008, on PBS in the US and re -broadcast in September 2008 on TVOntario in Canada, ABC1 in Australia, Australia Network in the Asia-Pacific region, TV ONE in New Zealand and on ET1 in Greece.

Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League

The Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League was a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey that lasted from the late 1960s until 1977 in Southern Ontario, Canada.

The Pas

In Canada and elsewhere, the book is used as part of school reading, and so despite its size, The Pas is widely known to several generations of Canadians, much as the town of Hannibal, Missouri is known to many from Mark Twain's writings.

Youth ministry

There are organizations within the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (the primary organization of Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States), as well as within the Canadian Unitarian Council (the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada), which minister to and with youth, of which Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) is the largest and most apparent.