Post One of Sharing Sundays

 “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 

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.)\

 Fifty percent of the world’s polar bears live in Nunavut.

 

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

Despite being the second largest country in the world, Canada has the fourth lowest population density in the world, with only three people living per square kilometer!

Almost half of the population in Canada were born in other countries.

NATIONAL PARK Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site Nova Scotia

http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ns/kejimkujik/index.aspx

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.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/biodegradable-plastics-not-breaking-down-in-ocean-un-report-says-1.3325486

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. 

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-on-the-lakes-in-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