26 Fun facts about Canada

26 Fun Facts About Canada

Happy Canada Day to Canadians around the world.

Today is Canada day, previously called Dominion Day, which has nothing to do with the Federation's victory over the Dominion during Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Canada Day celebrates the anniversary of the Constitution Act of 1867 (which was originally called the British North American Act), uniting the three colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswich, into a single Dominion within the British Empire, thereafter known and called Canada. 

Fun Fact #1. It was renamed as Canada Day in 1982.

Fun Fact #2. In 1980, "O Canada" was made the official National anthem of Canada.

Fun Fact #3. Did You Know these people are actually Canadians: Jim Carrey, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Michael J. Fox, Dan Ackroyd, Mike Myers, and William Shatner are all Canadians.

Fun Fact #4: Kiefer Sutherland might be a Canadian as well.

Perhaps, maybe, yeah he is, kinda. I'm sure it still counts.

Kiefer was born in London, then moved to California soon after. His parents were Canadian, though: Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas.

Fun Fact #5. A recent study found, 86% of Canadians felt like they lived in the best country in the world.

Fun Fact #6. After the results of a recent study were published, 14% of Canadians have been deported for treason. ***

Fun Fact #7. A recent study found the letter "A" is a Canadian's favourite letter in the alphabet.***

Fun Fact #8. Since 1998, makers of Alphabetti Spaghetti, Heinz, removed all the letters from their tin, except the letter "A". ***

Fun Fact #9. Canada's national symbol is the Beaver. 

Why not?

Who doesn't like a nice beaver?

Beavers are cute and furry, but can bite if you don't stroke them right. They have been known to attack if aggravated enough.

Fun Fact #10. Canadians call their $1 coin a "Loonie."

Fun Fact #11. Canadians call their $2 coin a "Toonie.

Fun Fact #12. Canada Day is also called "Moving Day."

Although July 1st is known as Canada Day to most Canadians, those in Quebec call it "Moving Day" as this is traditionally the day their leases expire and they have to move.

Fun Fact #13. Canada is colder than Mars.

On February 3rd, 1947, a temperature of -63C was recorded in the village of Snag. That's colder than the surface of Mars.

Fun Fact #14. Canada has 563 lakes larger than 100 square kilometres. 

Fun Fact #15. Canada's great lakes contain 18% of the world's fresh lake water.

Fun Fact #16. Canada has more surface area covered by lakes than any other country in the world.

Fun Fact #17. Canada is huge. It covers 9.98 million square kilometres. That's a lot of miles.

Fun Fact #18. Canada is actually bigger than the whole of the European Union.

Fun Fact #19. Canada is also bigger than Walt Disney World. In fact, it's bigger than nearly 82,000 Walt Disney Worlds put together.

Fun Fact #20. The Capital of Canada is Ottawa. It has a population of about a million people, making it only the 4th largest city in Canada.

Fun Fact #22. Ottawa was founded in 1826. Back then it was called Bytown, though. It didn't become Ottawa until 1855.

Fun Fact #21. The largest city in Canada is Toronto. It has a population of 2,731,571.

Fun Fact #22. Although the second largest country on the planet, 80% of the population of Canada is squeezed into large and medium-sized cities.

Fun Fact #23. The word "Canada" is derived from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word "kanata" which means "village" or "settlement.

Fun Fact #24. On July 1st, 1923, the Chinese Immigration act was enacted by the Canadian Government stopping all immigrations from China.

Fun Fact #25. Canada's national flag became official on February 15th, 1965 (nearly 100 years after becoming a country).

Fun Fact #26. Canada has it's own mythical monster. It's called the Ogopogo and allegedly resides in Lake Okanagan, British Canada.

Note. Those marked with *** are not real facts. They are just for laughs.