Results: O Canada! Our (Strange) Home And Native Land
Published on 03/26/2017
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Canada's a big country. Canada is considerably larger than the U.S., in sheer land mass, but has about one tenth the human population, some 36 million. The entire population of Canada is about the same as can be found in the state of California. However, even for many on this site from Canada, Canada has some interesting facts that very few people know about. First off, are you from Canada or are you an American, or other?
Live in Canada
33%
662 votes
Born in Canada, but don't live there now
2%
44 votes
Live in the U.S.
62%
1236 votes
Live elsewhere
3%
52 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
13 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.15% | 3 | |
| american | 0.10% | 2 |
| Born in Canada; Lived here all my life. | 0.05% | 1 |
| SOUTH AFRICA | 0.05% | 1 |
| 3rd generation on one side, 5th on the other. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Born & live | 0.05% | 1 |
| Born in th USA | 0.05% | 1 |
| Puerto Rico | 0.05% | 1 |
| born in canada/ my dad/ his dad/ his dad /his dad ??? came over in early 1700's | 0.05% | 1 |
| Srilanka | 0.05% | 1 |
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How many of these strange things about Canada did you know?
The Snolab in Sudbury, Ontario was designed for the study of neutrino and dark matter physics, it's the deepest clean laboratory in the world dedicated to this type of work. The lab, which was once the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, was built in a mine to avoid interference from environmental and solar radioactivity.
10%
199 votes
Just 130-km north of Winnipeg is the Narcisse Snake Dens conversation area, where each spring, tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes slither out from their dens for a few weeks from mid-April to early May-- it is here you can see more garter snakes than anywhere else in the world
11%
230 votes
Every spring, massive islands of ice broken off of glaciers in Greenland parade through Iceberg Alley, past the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland. Entrepreneurs are harvesting chunks of these cool marvels for some pretty unique products, including wine, vodka, beer, and even skincare products.
17%
339 votes
One of Canada's most unique Centennial projects in 1967 was the building of the world's first UFO Landing Pad in St. Paul, Alberta. The town provided the land, and local businesses provided building supplies and labour for the raised cement pad
8%
168 votes
None of them
71%
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How about these...how many did you know?
The green ink used for American money was invented at McGill University in Montreal, in 1857, by Thomas Sterry Hunt.
6%
114 votes
Wood Buffalo National Park, a national park larger than Switzerland, straddles the border of Northern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories. It was created in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of roaming Wood Bison, and the park is also home to the last known nesting site of whooping cranes
13%
261 votes
There are more donut shops per capita in Canada than any other country in the world.
17%
338 votes
Peterborough is the canoe capital of the world -- there is the Canadian Canoe Museum there, home to the world's largest collection of canoes and kayaks. National Paddling Day, which was originally celebrated on June 26th, has now evolved into National Paddling Week
9%
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None of them
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Here's a few more. Did you know these?
It's thanks to thousands of kind Canadians that kids around the world get answers to their letters and emails to Santa each year. Canada Post volunteers have answered more than 1 million letters in 30 languages (including braille)
24%
483 votes
Speaking of Santa, there are over 2.5 million Caribou (reindeers) in Canada
15%
297 votes
There is a crater on Mars that has been named for the town of Gander, Newfoundland. The 39-km (diameter) crater was dedicated to Gander in 1991 because of the town's history of pioneering aviation and aerospace technologies.
8%
162 votes
Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island on Earth, located in Baffin Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, and home to the Haughton crater, an area used for training for explorations of Mars, the moon and asteroids.
7%
150 votes
None of them
65%
1307 votes
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And finally, here's the last facts. Which of these did you know?
Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world. In fact, if you were to walk around the country (without sleeping, eating, or resting), it would take roughly four and a half years.
22%
442 votes
Canada only officially became an independent country in 1982.
18%
354 votes
Canada is home to 15,500 of the world's 25,000 polar bears. If seeing polar bears is on your bucket list, fly to Churchill in Manitoba, which also has the world's only polar bear prison. At certain times of year, the town has more polar bears than people.
18%
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And if you didn't think Canada could get any more weird or wonderful, Nanaimo in British Columbia hosts an annual aquatic bathtub race every year.
13%
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None of these
61%
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