Famous People & Inventions Canada
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1. Approx. 89% of Canada is not habitable, because of extreme climate conditions.
2. Newfoundland is the only province that does not have an Indian reserve.
3. Yonge Street in Toronto is the longest street in the World. (It also goes far past Toronto. I live 45 min. North of T.O and live on Yonge St)
4. Canada has six time zones.
5. With over 2 Million lakes, Canada has the largest amount of freshwater in the world
6. The oldest program in Canadian broadcasting history is” Hockey Night In Canada”. At first it was on the radio in 1931, and in the Fall of 1952 the first TV ice hockey game was broadcast nationally on CBC. It is still being produced weekly in both English and French .
7. The coldest temperature ever recorded was -63C (-81.4F) in Snag, Yukon on Feb 3, 1947.
8. Basketball: now a favourite in the U.S. – was invented by Canadian James A. Naismith , who was born in Almonte, Ontario in November 1871. After studying at McGill University in Montreal,Quebec he became an instructor at the International YMCA Training School in Massachusetts, USA. where he came up with the idea for basketball. The first basketball game was played in 1891.
9. Canada is the world’s second largest country , but houses only 27 million people – making it rank only 28th in population.
10. Five pin bowling was invented in 1909 by Canadian T.E. Ryan
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March 13th, 2009
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