Interesting facts about Canada

Day 2,714, 02:20 • Published in Canada Canada • by Sumueru

1.At 9 984 670 sq km and comprised of 6 time zones, Canada is huge!

2.Canada is also home to the longest street in the world. Yonge Street in Ontario starts at Lake Ontario, and runs north through Ontario to the Minnesota border, a distance of almost 2000 km.

3.While we’re talking ‘longest’, here’s another recor😛 Canada has the world’s longest coastline at 202 080 km.

4.A bear cub named Winnipeg was exported from Canada to the London Zoo in 1915. A little boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved to visit Winnipeg (or Winnie for short) and his love for the bear cub inspired the stories written by his father, A.A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh.

5.The Canadian motto, A Mari Usque ad Mare, means “From sea to sea.”

6.Canada holds the record for the most gold medals ever won at the Winter Olympics, since taking 14 Golds at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

7.The Blackberry Smartphone was developed in Ontario, at Research In Motion’s Waterloo offices.

8.Canada is home to about 55 000 different species of insects.

9.Canada’s only desert in British Columbia is only 15 miles long and is the only desert in the world with a long boardwalk for visitors to walk on.

10.Famous Canadians include Pamela Anderson, Leonard Cohen, Avril Lavigne, Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey.
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