💡 Interesting Facts
since 1978, countries including Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States have compiled government reports on groups referred to as cults.research in which vertebrates or cephalopods are used in Canada must meet the ethical standards set by the Canadian Council on Animal Care.some lava flows at the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field in British Columbia, Canada include unique, small, green nodules that come from the mantle.the Buffalo Bills' 2008 home game in their rivalry with the Miami Dolphins was the first National Football League regular-season game played in Canada.the Canadian-based fast food company Extreme Pita began to expand to include stores in the United States in 2003, beginning with Arizona.pioneer Morris Moss caused an international incident between the United States and Canada by seal hunting along the British Columbia Coast in the 1870s.over Edouard Deville’s lifetime, his method of photogrammetry was used to map mountainous regions in Canada roughly the size of the United Kingdom.on February 9, 1913, a procession of fireballs seen across Canada to Brazil likely represented the break-up of a short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.of the 81 Canadian casualties during Hurricane Hazel, 35 lived on Raymore Drive in Weston, Toronto, Ontario.on September 9, 1949, Albert Guay blew up a Douglas DC-3 over Sault-au-Cochon in Quebec, Canada, killing 23 people, in order to kill his wife and collect insurance money.one of the largest fish culture stations in Quebec, Canada, is in Lac-des-Écorces.over 70,000 Dark-eyed Juncos have been counted in a single day at the Bird Observatory in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.the Canadian constitutional crisis known as the King-Byng Affair led to the Statute of Westminster 1931, which affected all the Dominions in the British Empire.the Canadian government has approved InterPlane Skyboy (pictured) as an Advanced Ultra-Light Aeroplane (AULA).the American toad is a common species of toad found throughout the eastern United States and Canada.the 2007–2008 Nazko earthquakes in British Columbia, Canada, are the only recorded earthquakes in the Canadian Cordillera away from the coast resulting from magma moving in the Earth.the architecture of Ottawa is dominated by its role as the national capital of Canada.the Assembly of First Nations is an advocacy group for aboriginal people in Canada.the Bar U Ranch in Alberta, Canada, hosted both Prince Edward of Wales and the Sundance Kid.the 19th Golden Melody Awards ceremony in Taiwan featured Canadian recording artist Daniel Powter as a guest presenter.the United Kingdom relied on the Imperial Japanese Navy and its North American Task Force to defend Canada's west coast during the First World War.the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has 11 universities, including the University of King's College, the oldest university in British North America.the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion in Canadian libraries during 1974.the mineral athabascaite was discovered in 1949 during a research study of radioactive materials collected from Lake Athabasca in Saskatchewan, Canada.the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18, 2000 may be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter.neither the U.S. nor Canada uses UNESCO-defined mandatory signs (example pictured) for traffic.in the Ukrainian Canadian internment of 1914 to 1920, about five thousand Ukrainian immigrants from Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada.although the Chancery Amendment Act 1858 was repealed in the United Kingdom, it is still valid in the Republic of Ireland and parts of Canada.although Saint-Thomas once was the largest tobacco producer in the province of Quebec, Canada, it no longer is cultivated there.as part of Operation Noble Eagle (service badge pictured), Canada provided air defense protection for the Super Bowl XL.because of Canada's controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow, 428 All Weather Fighter Squadron of the RCAF was disbanded on June 1, 1961.during the War of 1812, Grenadier Island, Canada, housed a small military installation.although John Thompson Productions' pornographic films have won several awards, they have been banned in several countries, including Canada and Switzerland.after the inexplicable sinking of four identical trawlers in Acadia, the Canadian government took possession of the "cursed ship" Marc Guylaine in 1972, simply changed its name and re-sold it.a pioneer of the pre-war Czechoslovak swing music Jiří Traxler lives in Canada.a plane of Royal Canadian Air Force's No. 426 Squadron made Canada's first coast-to-coast non-stop flight.according to Statistics Canada, 60 percent of Canada's population are classified as White.after failed attempts for 1964, 1968 and 1972, the Calgary Olympic Development Association successfully brought the Winter Olympics to Calgary, Canada in 1988.eight Canadian soldiers were tried for manslaughter in Britain after the Epsom Riot of 1919.for the second season of Survive This, a Canadian reality TV show, participants were selected for the show based on their strong personalities and required to take a three-day survival course.in Canada there were once eight districts of the Northwest Territories.in 1880 Abraham Ulrikab and seven other native Inuit from Hebron, Labrador, Canada were put on display in European zoos and met untimely deaths from lack of medical attention.in October 2009 Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell became the first adult in North America known to have been killed by coyotes.in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada, built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River.in the Brazilian kidnapping of Abílio dos Santos Diniz the kidnappers were of various nationalities, including two Canadian university students.in 2005, Raheel Raza became the first woman to lead mixed-gender Muslim prayers in Canada.in 1993 almost 10 per cent of Canada's GDP was made up of municipal government spending.former Disney animator Jack Dunham created the official rooster mascot for St-Hubert, a Canadian BBQ restaurant chain.future Canadian Senator John Gilbert Higgins hung black crêpe paper on his door in mourning the day that Newfoundland joined Canada.in 1874, Nova Scotian MP and marine architect William D. Lawrence built the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, the William D. Lawrence.in 1931 three people were killed in Estevan, Canada, when police opened fire on a Mine Workers' Union of Canada rally.the beech-maple forest is a climax plant community in the eastern United States and Canada.the Canadian Ballet Festival is credited for Canadian dancers finding paid work in television.the film Joshua Then and Now was Canada's entry to the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.the daughter of Canadian adventurer Tillson Harrison claims that her father's life served as the inspiration for the Indiana Jones film series.the first golf course in North America was a three-hole course built in 1868 in the village of Sainte-Pétronille near Quebec City, Canada.the geologic features located within the Eramosa Karst are considered to be the best example of karst topography found in the Canadian province of Ontario.the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada was 1965's Hope Slide.the architectural style of Canadian architect David Webster has been locally referred to as a "castle style".the Hungarian-born Jew Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was successively a Presbyterian missionary in Canada, a British Member of Parliament, an international double agent, a German right-wing politician, and a Buddhist abbot in China.the USA Hawks are one of two national representative rugby union teams from the United States, and lost 0-98 in their inaugural North America 4 game against Canada West.the United States Academic Decathlon National Championships have featured teams from Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Northern Ireland and Brazil.the Odyssey tanker spilled 43 million gallons of oil off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, in November 1988.the Canadian Mohawk chief, the Flemish Bastard, was considered the primary spokesman for the pro-French faction of Canada in the 17th century.the largest sheet of mica (example pictured) ever mined in the world came from Denholm, Quebec, Canada.the neighborhood of Elm Park in Winnipeg, Canada, was originally a park created by the Winnipeg Street Railway Company to increase trolley use.until 1981 the Municipality of La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas in Canada had one of the longest place names in Quebec history, namely "La Visitation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge-de-l'Isle-du-Pads".to save weight while walking 1,000 km along the Camino de Santiago, Canadian fiddler Oliver Schroer packed a sleeping bag and clothes around his violin instead of using a case.when 20,000 Mennonites immigrated to Mexico from Canada in 1922, they were given freedom from taxation for 100 years so long as they supplied cheese to northern Mexico.when Canadian nun and midwife Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (pictured) founded the Hospice de Sainte-Pélagie in Montreal in 1845, it operated out of the attic of a house leased by her son.while only three Avro Chinooks, Canada's first jet engine design, were ever built, they led to the very successful Orenda design that followed.there have been nine head coaches who have spent their entire National Hockey League head coaching careers with the Montreal Canadiens, a Canadian professional ice hockey franchise.the six Imperial Towers were the first Canadian lighthouses to be fitted with Fresnel lenses.the new Prime Minister of Somalia, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, has Canadian citizenship and his family is based in Virginia, USA.the original Atikamekw village of Obedjiwan and its archaeological sites in Quebec, Canada, were flooded during the construction of the Gouin Reservoir.the proposed Atlantica trade bloc would economically tie New England in the U.S. to the Atlantic Provinces of Canada.the scandals involving the British fraud and impostor Lord Gordon-Gordon led to a major international incident between the US and Canada.the Toronto Women's Bookstore is the largest nonprofit, feminist bookstore in Canada.the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary is Canada's largest wildlife refuge, covering 26,000 square miles (67,000 km²).the Gens de Terre River in Quebec, Canada, has a 25 km (15.5 mi) section with continuous whitewater while flowing through 25 m (80 ft) high cliffs.the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the site of Canada's largest recorded Holocene explosive eruption 2,350 years ago at the Mount Meager massif.the Gouin Reservoir in Quebec, Canada is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of lakes with highly irregular shapes.the Great Fire of 1922 in the Timiskaming District, Ontario (aftermath pictured), was called one of the ten worst natural disasters in Canadian history.the Great Trail created by Native Americans connected the Great Lakes region of Canada to New England and the mid-Atlantic and laid the foundation for modern highways.the East and West Memorial Buildings in Ottawa, Canada were originally built in 1949 to house the rapidly growing Department of Veterans Affairs.the Dundas Valley Conservation Area contains a trailhead of Canada's first interurban multi-use trail system.the Chantecler, the only breed of chicken native to Canada, was developed by a Trappist monk.the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve in northern Ontario, Canada is the largest game preserve in the world.the Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse are among the oldest Canadian buildings of their type.the crown lands of the United Kingdom are different than crown lands in Canada and Australia, the latter being more like the public lands of the United States.the Hockley Valley Provincial Nature Reserve in the Canadian province of Ontario supports a population of the nationally endangered Butternut.the Ice Hotel in Québec, Canada, is the first ice hotel in North America.the Newfoundland Butter Company of Newfoundland manufactured only margarine, and was the first margarine manufacturing plant allowed in Canada.the PS Moyie (pictured) was the last working sternwheeler in Canada and is the oldest intact sternwheeler in the world.the Northern Woods and Water Route is a 2,400 km (1,490 mi) highway route through northern Canada, from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba.the Pingo National Landmark, in the Northwest Territories, is the only national landmark in Canada protecting pingos.the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200 million of funding from the United States federal government.the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northern British Columbia, Canada was a source of obsidian for Tahltan people and its lava plateau has been an important cultural resource.the Mid-Canada Line was a line of radar sites across Canada designed to be an nuclear attack early-warning system.the Inuvialuit Settlement Region's only deepwater port is located in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada.the Kipawa River in Quebec, Canada, is being considered for hydroelectric development which would completely divert it.the LRC tilting train provided core service with VIA Rail in Canada for several decades, and that Bombardier Transportation used its coach design on the Acela Express and British Rail Class 221.the Mackenzie Large Igneous Province in Canada is one of the largest Proterozoic magmatic provinces on Earth and the world's largest and best-preserved continental flood basalt terrain.a Sunday assassination attempt against Malkiat Singh Sidhu caught Canadian authorities off-guard, as information about the threat received on Friday was not passed along until Monday.a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada.Canadian writer Carol Shields died before she ever got to see the completed version of the screen adaption of her novel, The Republic of Love, despite being involved in the pre-production of the film.Canadian scientist Bill Mathews was a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America.Canadian-born Jim Koleff spent three decades in Europe as an ice hockey player, coach and manager after telling coach Dave Chambers that he would play in Italy for one year.Czech fighter pilot Otto Spacek survived three air crashes and won five Czechoslovak War Crosses during the Second World War, but then spent 40 years in exile in Canada after the Communists came to power.French singer Patricia Kaas' 1990 album Scène de vie was certified Diamond in France, Double-platinum in Switzerland and Platinum in Canada.Canadian radio broadcaster Clyde Gilmour hosted a weekly national show for more than 40 years, presenting from his substantial personal music collection.Canadian police were called to a riot when "County Leitrim's favourite son" Pat Quinn brought The Rolling Stones to North America in 1965.Canadian actor Kevin Durand, who plays antagonist Martin Keamy in the fourth season of the television show Lost, is a former rapper and stand-up comic.Canadian authorities used the academic enrollment list of a diploma mill to arrest 24 students they wrongly accused of being an "al-Qaeda sleeper cell" in Project Thread.Canadian broadcaster Linden MacIntyre wrote his memoir during a fifty-day lockout at the CBC.Canadian painter Sophie Pemberton, who painted her award-winning "Little Boy Blue" in 1897, taught painting to local female artists.geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years.Jack Benny was so impressed with native Canadian singer Gisele MacKenzie that he was co-executive producer of her NBC variety show, The Gisele MacKenzie Show.aboriginal whaling rights are granted to native populations in Greenland, Canada, the United States, Russia and several Caribbean island communities.Wilco's upcoming studio album is expected to feature a duet with Canadian singer Feist.Ambloplites species are native to a region extending from the Hudson Bay basin in Canada to the lower Mississippi River basin in the United States.Babette March, the first cover model of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, became a farmer in Canada and is now an artist, entrepreneur and chef in Halfway, Oregon.Betsey Stockton, the first unmarried female foreign missionary, was a manumitted slave who established schools in Hawaii and Canada.Voltaire's dismissive line about Canada being but "A few acres of snow" is, in fact, a misquote.volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia, Canada, remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined.mitochondrial DNA testing of the 300 to 500-year-old Canadian "iceman" mummy Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi and current clans of British Columbia revealed 17 living relatives.Montreal up-and-comers Hollerado accompanied The Stills to the TransmitCHINA conference, an event established to promote musical exchange between Canada and the People's Republic of China.oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison.U.S. President LBJ once battered Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson over Canada's Vietnam War policy.Canadian TV series Brothers TV was described as "lowbrow comedic stuff that is ever-so-watchable" but only ran for eight episodes.Canadian Elmer Lach retired as the National Hockey League's leading scorer in 1954.Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships.Canada's first paper mill was built in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, in 1803.Canadian actress Cara Duff-MacCormick won a Theatre World Award for her role in Moonchildren, a play about coming of age during the Vietnam War era.Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan, which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters.Canadian editorial cartoonist Stewart Cameron so alienated followers of the Alberta Social Credit League that his house was once bombed.Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road.Canada issues special licence plates available only to war veterans.150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866.67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.Canada and Panama signed the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on August 11, 2009.Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany, costing Canada a potential gold medal.Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame member Allan Pickard built and managed amateur ice hockey organizations that produced future NHL stars and became a model for modern organized amateur hockey.Canadian martial artist Tomasz Kucharzewski, who fought in an estimated 300 fights, was described as "happy-go-lucky" by his trainer due to his friendly demeanor.Canadian pianist Glenn Gould produced three radio documentaries, collectively named the Solitude Trilogy, in which up to three people speak simultaneously in monologue.Canadian paleontologist Scott D. Sampson hosted the four episode nature documentary series Dinosaur Planet for the Discovery Channel in 2003.Canadian professional wrestler and promoter Bronko Lubich was influential in the careers of several wrestlers such as Mick Foley, Steve Austin and Percy Pringle.Canadian supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri was the daughter of an Islamic cleric who opposed his daughter's career.Canadian water slide manufacturer ProSlide's first water coaster driven by linear induction motors opened at Australia's WhiteWater World in 2006.Canadian ice hockey referee and organizer Fred Waghorne was the first to use a whistle to stop game play rather than the customary cowbell, when disruptive fans started bringing their own cowbells.Canadian nun Eulalie Durocher has been associated with the recovery of a man declared dead and sudden changes in the course of two fires.Canadian microbiologist John Dick was the first to isolate and identify a cancer stem cell.Canadian Ministers of Finance have a tradition of buying or wearing new shoes on budget day.Canadian musician Richard Bell was a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band and became a member of The Band during the 1990s.Canadian nun Émilie Gamelin was one of only 226 women who sought to vote at the 1832 Montreal West by-election.Bowie Seamount on the British Columbia Coast of Canada is one of the most biologically rich submarine volcanoes on Earth and was an active volcanic island throughout the last glacial period.Bristol, Quebec, had Canada's first horse-drawn railroad and Quebec's first iron ore pelletizing plant.Rideau was the first Canadian company to be granted its own coat of arms by The Heraldic Authority.Richard Ingoldesby, Governor of New Jersey, caused the defeat of a bill to raise 200 men for an invasion of Canada in order to remove the Quakers from all public offices in New Jersey.Saskatchewan Highway 39 is one of Canada's busiest highways, facilitating transport for $6 billion in trade goods via approximately 100,000 trucks per year.Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada's second largest saline lake.Tanco Mine in Manitoba, Canada, is the world's largest producer of caesium.Peter Gadsden, the 652nd Lord Mayor of London, was born in Canada and became a Companion of the Order of Australia.Peter Edmund Jones (pictured) is believed to be the first Status Indian to receive a Medical Doctorate in Canada.Medicine wheels are stone structures built by the natives of America and Canada for various spiritual and ritual purposes.Norman Bethune Sanson climbed Canadian mountains with King George VI of the United Kingdom and King Prajadhipok of Siam.one-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of the United States, Canada and Australia until the early 20th century, and that they continue in some parts of Ireland today.Perley A. Thomas was a Canadian millsmith who attended night courses, learned drafting and design skills, and became a renowned streetcar and bus manufacturer in High Point, North Carolina.The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences.The Volcano in northwestern British Columbia is the youngest known volcano in Canada and its last eruption likely took place only 150 years ago.Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit.Booky's Crush is the third in a series of Canadian made for TV movies, and follows Booky and the Secret Santa (2006) and Booky Makes Her Mark (2007).Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada.Julie Couillard's memoir My Story reveals confidential opinions that Canadian member of Parliament Maxime Bernier allegedly shared with her and was released eight days before Bernier is seeking re-election.Philippine Christmas lanterns, called Parols (pictured), are also used in Christmas celebrations in Austria, Canada and California.Archiinocellia is the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada.William Couper is considered one of the first prominent entomologists in Canada.Tommy Dunderdale is the only Australian-born player to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Canada.USS General S. D. Sturgis was the transport ship assigned to deliver officials of the United States, Australia, Canada, Dutch East Indies, China and the Philippines to Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender ceremonies at the end of World War II.Wayne Boden, a Canadian serial killer and rapist, was the first man to be convicted with the help of forensic odontological evidence in North America.William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir was once barred from a nightclub near Ottawa, Canada, because Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King disapproved of his father.Mary's Point in New Brunswick, Canada has the world's highest density of Corophium volutator, a crustacean which is a food source of millions of Semipalmated Sandpipers.Mario Duschenes was the widely admired conductor of young people's orchestra concerts across Canada.David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party.Dave Murray, a Canadian alpine skier and member of the Crazy Canucks, was ranked third in the world in downhill skiing in 1979.David Yuile and his brother William attempted to control the Canadian glass manufacturing sector by founding the Diamond Glass Company, which did not make any glass.Dov Yosef, Israel's second Minister of Justice, immigrated to Israel as a soldier in the Canadian Jewish Legion.Edward Kerr Turner was a delegate for Saskatchewan agriculture in both national and international affairs.Cold Sunday was a specific meteorological event which took place on January 17, 1982, when unprecedentedly cold air swept down from Canada, sending temperatures in the United States far below existing all-time record lows.Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant.Cairine Wilson was Canada's first female senator.Cape Wolstenholme of Ungava Peninsula is the northern-most tip of the Canadian province of Quebec.Charley Fox, a Canadian flight lieutenant, was credited with injuring Erwin Rommel.Christina Lake, British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps.Equine Hippique Canada, Canada's official equestrian federation, describes itself as a "little known and hardly recognized" entity, despite selecting the Olympic teams.Fabian Joseph, a former team captain of the Canada men's national ice hockey team, won two winter Olympic silver medals for Canada in the early 1990s.infectious salmon anemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada, Norway, and Scotland.Infectious Salmon Anaemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada, Norway, and Scotland.James Foster was a Scottish-born Canadian goalie who helped lead Great Britain to its first and only Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1936.Labatt Park in London, Ontario, Canada is thought to be the oldest continually operating baseball diamond in the world.Lac-Simon, in Quebec, Canada, is named after Marie-Louise Cimon, the wife of an early settler.until the 1930s and 1940s people in the United States and Canada obtained their Christmas trees mostly from native forests.Herschel Island in Canada is named for scientist John Herschel.Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League.Gordon K. Douglass qualified for the Canadian national canoe paddling team, but was not allowed to go to the 1936 Olympics because he was American.Gustavus Blin Wright, a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada, built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3.Harvey Locke (pictured) conceived the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, with the goal to create a continuous wilderness corridor from Yellowstone National Park in the United States to the Yukon in Canada."Too Hot", Alanis Morissette's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991, was a dance pop song.