The
Things you Did and Did
Not know about Canada
Fact
or Fiction
About Canada?
- All Canadians
are lumberjacks and fur traders?
- It Snow
all Year Round?
- Canadians live
in igloos and own a dogsled?
- Canadians all
eat Back Bacon?
- All Canadians end
every sentence wit the word.... "EH"
- All Canadians
pronounce "about" .... a-boot
- All people
in Quebec speak French?
- How Big is
Canada... well it's really only about
the size of Washington DC
..... It's just the curve of the earth
makes it look bigger....lol
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All
of the above are Fiction
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Facts about Canada |
- Total Mass:
9,984,670 sq km
- Land
boundaries: US 8,893 km (includes
2,477 km with Alaska)
- Latitude:
49th Parallel
- Coastline:
202,080 km
- Elevation:
lowest point: Atlantic Ocean
0 m highest point:
Mount Logan 5,959 m
- Geography:
second-largest country in world (after
Russia);
- Population:
32,507,874
- Population
Distribution: approximately
90% of the population is concentrated
within 300 km of the US border
- Country
Distribution: Canada is divided
into ten provinces and three territories
- Country
Capital: capital city of Canada
is Ottawa Ontario
Time Zones: There are
6 time zones across Canada
- Ethnic
Groups: British Isles origin
28%, French origin 23%, other European
15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian,
African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%
- Famous
Canadians:
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| Peter
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