Fun Facts
Number of provinces in Canada
What is 10?
Canadian citizens elect representatives to serve in this federal legislative body.
What is the House of Commons?
Canada's national winter sport
What is Hockey?
Yukon`s capital city
What is Whitehorse?
Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada
September 30th
Animal on the Canadian nickel
What is a beaver?
First Prime Minister of Canada
This Canadian singer released the hit song "My Heart Will Go On."
Who is Céline Dion?
Largest province by area
What is Quebec?
National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada is celebrated on this date.
What is June 21?
Which province produces most of Canada's maple syrup?
Quebec
Province that joined Confederation in 1949
What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
Canada's national summer sport
What is Lacrosse?
Great Lake bordering Toronto
Orange Shirt Day, observed on September 30, raises awareness about the legacy of these institutions
What are honouring the memory of thousands of Indigenous children who were forced into residential and boarding schools, honoring both the survivors and the many who never returned home.
Canadians consume more of this boxed pasta product per capita than any other country.
What is Kraft Dinner (KD)?
The red-and-white Maple Leaf flag became Canada's official flag in this year.
What is 1965?
This annual winter festival in Québec City is famous for its snow sculptures and Bonhomme mascot.
What is the Québec Winter Carnival?
Highest mountain in Canada?
What is Mount Logan?
This Indigenous language family includes Cree, Ojibwe, and Mi'kmaq.
What is Algonquian language family?
This Canadian island is the world's fifth-largest island and is larger than the entire United Kingdom.
What is Baffin Island?
This explorer claimed parts of eastern Canada for France in 1534.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Canada hosted the Summer Olympic Games in this city in 1976.
What is Montreal?
This is the longest river entirely within Canada.
What is the Mackenzie River?
This celebrated author and member of Curve Lake First Nation wrote The Inconvenient Indian.
Who is Thomas King?