About Canada
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I was bored, so here are random facts from the internet about Canada.
1. We average about 250 automotive accidents involving moose each year.
2. We are the most educated country in the world, over 50% of our citizens have at least a college degree and our literacy rate is over 99%.
3. The first Canadian casualties recorded in the Afghanistan war were caused by an American pilot bombing a training exercise.
4. The Mall of America is owned by Canadians.
5. After the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Canada declared war on Japan before the U.S. did.
6. Canada is a word in the Iroquoian language meaning village.
7. Our official phone number is 1-800-0-CANADA
8. We were invaded by America twice, and they lost both times.
9. Our motto is A Mari Usque ad Mare, From Sea to Sea.
10. The Vikings were actually the first to colonize Canada, settling the east coast circa 1000 CE
11. Founded in Montreal 1786, Molson Coors Canada is the oldest brewer in North America
12. The Northwest Territories are called The Land of the Midnight Sun because the sun doesn't set in the sky around the summer solstice.
13. A bear cub named Winnipeg exported to the London zoo from Canada inspired a young boy, and in turn his father A.A. Milne, to write his famed stories about Whinnie-the-Pooh.
14. We have national parks that outsize Denmark or Switzerland.
15. In 1642, a group of religious mystics from France were inspired by a vision to build a missionary city in the Canadian wilderness. Led by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve and an Ursuline nun name Jeanne Mance, they founded Montreal.
16. The modern game of ice hockey was developed in Canada, based on games that have been played since the tenth century.
17. Lacrosse is our official sport.
18. Cryptozoologists claim that Canada is the home of several cryptids, including Sasquatch, a giant sloth-like creature known as the beaver-eater, a cannibalistic wildman named Windigo, and a number of lake monsters, such as Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia.
>Beaver-eater
19. There is an annual bath tub race in Nanaimo, B.C.
20. We use superior British spelling in our writing unlike Americans.
1. We average about 250 automotive accidents involving moose each year.
2. We are the most educated country in the world, over 50% of our citizens have at least a college degree and our literacy rate is over 99%.
3. The first Canadian casualties recorded in the Afghanistan war were caused by an American pilot bombing a training exercise.
4. The Mall of America is owned by Canadians.
5. After the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Canada declared war on Japan before the U.S. did.
6. Canada is a word in the Iroquoian language meaning village.
7. Our official phone number is 1-800-0-CANADA
8. We were invaded by America twice, and they lost both times.
9. Our motto is A Mari Usque ad Mare, From Sea to Sea.
10. The Vikings were actually the first to colonize Canada, settling the east coast circa 1000 CE
11. Founded in Montreal 1786, Molson Coors Canada is the oldest brewer in North America
12. The Northwest Territories are called The Land of the Midnight Sun because the sun doesn't set in the sky around the summer solstice.
13. A bear cub named Winnipeg exported to the London zoo from Canada inspired a young boy, and in turn his father A.A. Milne, to write his famed stories about Whinnie-the-Pooh.
14. We have national parks that outsize Denmark or Switzerland.
15. In 1642, a group of religious mystics from France were inspired by a vision to build a missionary city in the Canadian wilderness. Led by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve and an Ursuline nun name Jeanne Mance, they founded Montreal.
16. The modern game of ice hockey was developed in Canada, based on games that have been played since the tenth century.
17. Lacrosse is our official sport.
18. Cryptozoologists claim that Canada is the home of several cryptids, including Sasquatch, a giant sloth-like creature known as the beaver-eater, a cannibalistic wildman named Windigo, and a number of lake monsters, such as Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia.
>Beaver-eater
19. There is an annual bath tub race in Nanaimo, B.C.
20. We use superior British spelling in our writing unlike Americans.
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animefreak_usa
Child of Samael
8. Not really true. We burned down parliament and then raided Ottawa. Then the English Canadian units burn down the white house. There was win or lost in either case. Canada played little in both wars except a fort and entry point. Most of the soldiers weren't canadain. They were British army regulars and a few miltia/indains/escaped blacks.
The rest maybe true. English is a germanic language of Saxon. Colour is just plain weird.
The rest maybe true. English is a germanic language of Saxon. Colour is just plain weird.
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Cruz
Dope Stone Lion
Hello Buzzfeed!
Now tell me 10 facts about New Zealand. Or tell me what certain celebrities are saying regarding -insert relevant topic here-.
Now tell me 10 facts about New Zealand. Or tell me what certain celebrities are saying regarding -insert relevant topic here-.
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animefreak_usa wrote...
8. Not really true. We burned down parliament and then raided Ottawa. Then the English Canadian units burn down the white house. There was win or lost in either case. Canada played little in both wars except a fort and entry point. Most of the soldiers weren't canadain. They were British army regulars and a few miltia/indains/escaped blacks.The rest maybe true. English is a germanic language of Saxon. Colour is just plain weird.
Well, technically no one was really "Canadian" during those wars, Canada wasn't officially recognized as a country until 1867. But when I am referring to Canada there, it includes the people already native to the land, black immigrants and of course the British & Irish colonialists.
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cruz737 wrote...
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Waar
FAKKU Moderator
animefreak_usa wrote...
8. Not really true. We burned down parliament and then raided Ottawa. Then the English Canadian units burn down the white house. There was win or lost in either case. Canada played little in both wars except a fort and entry point. Most of the soldiers weren't canadain. They were British army regulars and a few miltia/indains/escaped blacks.The rest maybe true. English is a germanic language of Saxon. Colour is just plain weird.
War of 1812: when America declared war against the British in an attempt to annex British territories in modern day Canada.
That was the battle of york(not our capital), it was a "small provincial" parliament building(a library was also burned down). Not sure where the stuff came about Ottawa being raided. As stated above British soldiers ended up burning down your white house near the end of the war(which neither side saw a way to decisively win anymore). Final point, a lot of the British soldiers making up a large part of their forces were native Canadian.
So it is in fact true.
p.s. English is an amalgamation of multiple languages based on Saxon, and the English(and the rest of English speaking countries) decided to go with colour, why change it?
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Waar
FAKKU Moderator
623 wrote...
I thought Winnie the Pooh was originally Edward Bear or something like that.Seems the author's son renamed the bear pooh after the Canadian bear(winnie) at the London zoo.
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Gravity cat
the adequately amused
William wrote...
20. We use superior British spelling in our writing unlike Americans.<3
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deadsx
Lvl 99
Reminds me of a news story i read. In some national test of grade 8 Americans, 33% think that Canada, France and Australia, Are dictatorships.
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Sneakyone wrote...
Canada seems like a really nice country, I'd like to visit it when I get the chance.You'd like Alberta, it's basically Texas with more grass and gun control.
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William wrote...
Sneakyone wrote...
Canada seems like a really nice country, I'd like to visit it when I get the chance.You'd like Alberta, it's basically Texas with more grass and gun control.
So it's nothing like Texas?
Sneakyone wrote...
Canada seems like a really nice country, I'd like to visit it when I get the chance.And you call yourself an American.
