“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own
way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe
wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This
heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.”
John G Diefenbaker
John G Diefenbaker
Merging Roots may seem like the "wrong" blog to post to facts about Canada in - however, I choose it because between my husband's and my roots they all came from other counties to settle in Canada so what better place to post than the blog that shares their lives.
Every four weeks I am going to try to share my 150th project in a blog the facts about Canada I have shared on Sundays with my Facebook friends and Family.
Sharing
Sundays - Plan to share7
interesting facts about Canada and 1 of our National Parks NOT sure if all of the facts are true… but many of them are new to me as well.
Some of the facts and parks have links if you want to learn
more about them.
January 1 to 7 -
Canada’s beaver is the second largest rodent in the
world, weighing up to 60 pounds. (The largest rodent is the capybara, found in
South America and weighing up to 100 pounds.)\
There are 522 airports with paved runways, 931 airports
with unpaved runways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Canada
Nunavut takes up one fifth of Canada’s total land area.
Three of Canada’s islands make the top ten for size in the
world – Baffin, Ellesmere and Victoria
Almost half of the
population in Canada were born in other countries.
NATIONAL PARK Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic
Site Nova Scotia
Week 2 Jan 8 to 14
Week 2 Jan 15
There are 47 National Parks, 4 Marine Conservation Areas
and 171 National Historic Site of
Canada
First Peoples in Nova Scotia till 1860's: The Mi'kmaq
(Me-ga-ma), Vikings, French, Portuguese, Scots, English, Irish, German, Swiss,
African
New Brunswick has warmest saltwater beaches north of
Virginia.
Michias Seal Island (in the Bay of Fundy) is home to 900
pairs of breeding Atlantic puffins
The word “Kebec” is an Algonquin word meaning where the
river narrows. (Quebec)
Quebec City is the only walled city north of Mexico. It has
4.6 kilometers of walls.
Montreal is home to the famous Cirque du Soleil.
GROS MORNE NATIONAL PARK
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/nl/grosmorne/activ.aspx
Week 3 Jan 15 to 21
The three pence beaver stamp was the first of
the Province of Canada, issued in 1851 and designed by Sandford Fleming.
http://blog.arpinphilately.com/canadas-three-pence-beaver-stamp-a-little-jewel/
The province of Prince Edward Island (also referred to as
PEI or P.E.I.) includes the main island of the same name, as well as 231 minor
islands totaling 2.195 square miles.
PEI is Canada’s only province with no land boundary
Ten of about 150 species of maples grow in Canada: Sugar
Maple, Black Maple, Mountain Maple, Bigleaf Maple, Red Maple, Douglas Maple,
Vine Maple, Manitoba Maple, Silver Maple, and Striped Maple.
In 1763, Great Britain obtained the Prince Edward Island
from France under the terms of the Treaty of Paris
The Common Loon was adopted as Ontario’s official bird on
June 23, 1994.
In the Arctic, because the ice traps them, the abundance of
microplastics are at least three times more than in other areas in oceans,
including the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Prince Edward Island National Park of
Canada http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/pe/pei-ipe/activ.aspx
Week 4 – Jan 22 to 27
A lot of the plastic that WWF-Canada finds on shorelines is
from everyday waste, such as grocery bags, food wrappers and water bottles.
Wasaga Beach on Georgian Bay Ontario is the world’s longest
freshwater beach, 8.6 miles / 14 km.
The French originally settled New France, in present-day
Quebec and Ontario; and Acadia, in present-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,
during the early part of the 17th century.
"The Maple Leaf Forever" is a Canadian song
written by Alexander Muir (1830–1906) in 1867, the
year of Canada's
Confederation.[1] He wrote the work after serving with the Queen's Own Rifles
of Toronto in the Battle of Ridgeway against the Fenians in 1866.
Alaska has the longest International border of all the
states with Canada
The North American heartland, linked by rivers running from
the north, west, and south and flowing eastwards via the St Lawrence River, saw
intense fighting during the War of 1812.
Today, the maple
leaf is closely associated with or/as Canada
Saguenay–St.
Lawrence Marine Park http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/amnc-nmca/qc/saguenay/activ.aspx
Canada is probably the most free country in the
world where a man still has room to breathe, to spread out, to move
forward, to move out, an open country with an open frontier. Canada has
created harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups, and it must take
this experience to the world because there is yet to be such an example
of harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups.
- Valentyn Moroz
