Globe Trotter in Canada - Interesting facts added

Day 3,415, 12:10 • Published in Canada North Korea • by Silexu


"The expanse of Canada's natural beauty, from mountains and glaciers to secluded lakes and forests, is almost unparalleled worldwide. But Canada's allure is not just the great outdoors, Canada has cosmopolitan cities that are clean, safe, friendly and multicultural. In fact, Canada repeatedly is lauded as one of the world's most livable countries. Whether your interests are river rafting or live theater, Canada won’t disappoint." - So Many Reasons to Visit Canada

"We love the Great White North. The people are friendly, the food is warm and the winters are brutal. But we’re more than just the place with the maple syrup, or the next best choice for discouraged Americans. Canada is a friendly northern nation with a rich history, diverse landscapes and it deserves to make your 2017 travel bucket list." - 17 Reasons to Visit Canada in 2017

Last but not least an amazing article you must see -
25 Reasons to Visit Canada


Montreal


Toronto


Vancouver by night


Quebec Skyline


Parliament Hill, Ottawa


Fairmont Empress hotel in Victoria


Skate down the Rideau Canal in Ottawa


Rue Sant Luis, Quebec


Royal Ontario Museum


Canadian Museum of Civilization


"Maman", in front of The National Gallery, Ottawa


Old ship in West Edmonton Mall


Butchart Gardens in Victoria


An Architect's Own Home In Cottage Country


Hiking in Joe Batt’s Arm, Tilting, Fogo Island


Niagara Falls


Whitewater rafting in Jasper, Alberta


Glacier sky-walk in Jasper National Park


Ma ligne Lake in Jasper National Park


Moraine Lake, Alberta


Capilano Suspension Bridge


The Hagwilgit Bridge in Hazelton BC


"Eddy Park" in Telkwa BC


Forest during hunting session, Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia


Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick


Canmore Cave


Brimstone Head, Fogo


Confederation Bridge


Lighthouse on red sands of PEI


Canoe at Dawn, Cottage Country


Beach in Prince Edward Island

Interesting facts - provided by Swoosh
1. Canada spans 9 984 670 sq km and comprises 6 time zones.
2. Canada is 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 2,000 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. 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. Toronto’s Rogers Centre, formerly known as the SkyDome, is home to the largest Sony big screen in the world, measuring 10 m x 33.6 m.
7. The Blackberry Smartphone was developed in Ontario, at Research In Motion’s Waterloo offices.
8. The Big Nickel in Sudbury, Ontario is the world’s largest coin. It is a huge reproduction of a 1951 Canadian nickel and measures nine meters in diameter.
9. Canada has twice been invaded by the USA, first in 1775 and again in 1812.
10. Actor Leslie Nielsen is Canadian. His brother, Erik, was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada for two years, from 1984 to 1986.
11. Canada holds the record for the most gold medals ever won at the Winter Olympics, taking 14 Golds at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
12. Sandy Gardiner, a journalist with the Ottawa Journal in the 60s, coined the term ‘Beatlemania’ while he was writing a story about the Beatles.
13. Canada was named through a misunderstanding. When Jaques Cartier, a French explorer, came to the new world, he met with local Natives who invited them to their ‘kanata’ (the word for ‘village’). The party mistakenly thought the name of the country was “Kanata” or Canada.
14. The Mounted Police was formed in 1873, with nine officers. In 1920, the group merged with the Dominion Police to become the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which today has close to 30 000 members.
15. Canada is home to approximately 55,000 different species of insects.
16. Montreal is home to many beautiful churches and is often called The City of Saints or City of a Hundred Bell Towers.
17. Ontario is believed to be home to the world’s smallest jail, which measures only 24.3 sq metres.
18. The Hotel de Glace in Quebec is built every year using 400 tons of ice and 12 000 tons of snow. Every summer it melts away, only to be rebuilt the following winter.
19. 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.
20. Famous Canadians include Pamela Anderson, Leonard Cohen, Avril Lavigne, Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey.
Globe Trotter Itinerary






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Countries for which I neither have invitation nor support for obtaining citizenship. Yet!



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