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14 unusual facts about Provinces and territories of Canada


Bell Local

Bell Local broadcasts into the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

Halifax bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games

The Halifax bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games was a withdrawn bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games by Halifax Regional Municipality, the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Judo Canada

Judo Canada, formerly known as The Canadian Kodokan Black Belt Association, is the non-profit national governing body of the Japanese martial art and combat sport Judo in Canada, and a federation of Judo associations in each of the ten provinces and three territories.

Law Society of Manitoba

To practice law in the Province of Manitoba, a person must be a member of the Law Society of Manitoba.

Licensed practical nurse

A licensed practical nurse (LPN) in much of the United States and most Canadian provinces is a nurse who cares for people who are sick, injured, convalescent, or disabled under the direction of registered nurses and physicians.

Order of Manitoba

The Order of Manitoba is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Place Fleur de Lys

It is in fact the first ever Sears store in the province of Quebec and, back in 1963, it had opened under the name Simpsons-Sears.

Place Sainte-Foy

The Simons store has been in the mall since 1961, making it one of the longest dating anchor stores in the province of Quebec.

Robert Fern Lyons

Robert Fern Lyons (July 1, 1856 – December 29, 1926) was a politician in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Rodolphe Forget

He held national directorships and had major investments in energy companies as well as industrial concerns and railway companies in the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

Rogers TV

Rogers TV broadcasts into the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario.

Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

The first show thus opened on 22 November 1922, drawing to its livestock competitions 17,000 entries from several provinces and the United States.

Shannen's Dream

Education on-reserve is funded by the Canadian federal government and while off-reserve education is funded by provincial or territorial governments.

Wild river

Canada's river conservation program was not established by statute, but is instead a cooperative arrangement between Canada's ten provinces and three territories establishing a fifteen member (appointed) Canadian Heritage Rivers board, to which participating members nominate rivers to be designated as heritage rivers, for which river management plans building on existing statutory powers are prepared, agreed, and endorsed.


Atlin District

The Atlin District, also known as the Atlin Country, is a historical region located in the far northwestern corner of the Canadian province of British Columbia, centred on Atlin Lake and the gold-rush capital of the region, the town of Atlin.

Big Bend Country

Big Bend Country is a term used in the Canadian province British Columbia to refer to the region around the northernmost bend of the Columbia River, where the river leaves its initial northwestward course along the Rocky Mountain Trench to curve around the northern end of the Selkirk Mountains to head southeast between that range and the Monashee Mountains, which lie to the west.

Cape Breton North and Victoria

Cape Breton North and Victoria (also known as North Cape Breton and Victoria and Cape Breton North—Victoria) was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1968.

Cascadia official soccer team

The team will be composed of players from the U.S states of Oregon, Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan

The Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan is the superior trial court for the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

Eurybia radula

Eurybia radula is present in every province of Canada east of and including Ontario and is also present on the French territory of St. Pierre and Miquelon.

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is a provincial crown corporation in British Columbia created in 1973 by the NDP government of British Columbia.

Mayo Moran

Mayo Moran (born June 2, 1959), a native of the Canadian province of British Columbia and daughter of author Bridget Moran and Pat Moran, has been Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto since January 1, 2006, the first ever female dean of the Faculty of Law.

Rosa carolina

Rosa carolina, commonly known as the Carolina rose, pasture rose, or low rose, is a shrub in the rose family native to eastern North America, where it can be found in nearly all US states and Canadian provinces east of the Great Plains.

Salmo River

The Salmo River is a tributary of the Pend d'Oreille River in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Shuswap Country

The Shuswap Country, or simply "the Shuswap" (pronounced /ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/) is a term used in the Canadian province of British Columbia to refer to the environs of Shuswap Lake.