General
Letters addressed to the postal code H0H 0H0 are delivered here.
The North Pole
Fun Fact: Volunteers reply to about 1.6 million of these letters each year.
This was the first national park established in Canada.
Banff National Park
Fun Fact: The park was established in 1885!
Some 90 percent of Canadians live within 160 kilometres of this.
The U.S Border
Quebec is the world’s top producer of this condiment.
Maple Syrup
These are the two national sports of Canada.
Hockey and Lacrosse
The location of the world’s highest tides.
The Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia
Fun Fact: The tides can range anywhere from 3.5 to 16 metres high!
On July 1, 1867, the British North America Act united which four provinces into the new Dominion of Canada?
Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Canada has more of these than the rest of the world combined.
Lakes
Fun Fact: About 9 percent of Canada’s surface area is covered by fresh water.
This is the most-consumed fruit in Canada.
Bananas
This event was the most watched broadcast in Canadian history.
The 2010 Olympic Men’s Hockey Final.
Fun Fact: 16.6 million Canadians watched Team Canada clinch the gold medal.
There are approximately 50 million goldfish swimming in this lake.
Lake Ontario
Fun Fact: The goldfish population has surged in recent years as a result of people freeing their pets in open water.
Which province was the last to join Confederation, doing so after a close referendum in 1949?
Newfoundland & Labrador
Fun Fact: After a hard-fought debate and two referendums, Newfoundland joined Canada as its 10th province on March 31, 1949.
This town set a record for the most extreme temperature change—from -19 Celsius to +22 Celsius in less than an hour.
Pincher Creek, Alberta
Fun Fact: They experienced this momentous shift in January 1962, thanks to the chinook winds.
Canadians eat 1 billion of these every year.
Donuts
Thank you, Tim Horton's!
Canada has 2860 of these (twice as many as the United States).
Hockey rinks
This Montreal spot is considered the country’s oldest restaurant
L'Auberge Saint Gabriel
Fun Fact: The restaurant first opened in 1754!
This Métis leader is considered the founder of Manitoba
Louis Riel
Fun Fact: He helped create the Manitoba Act, which brought the province into Confederation in 1870.
This area has less gravity than the rest of the world.
Hudson's Bay
Fun Fact: It has slightly less gravity because there is less mass (rock and material) directly beneath the region.
Canadians consume more than twice as much of this meal-in-a-box than Americans.
Kraft Dinner
The oldest surviving basketball court in the world resides in this city and province.
St. Stephen, New Brunswick
Fun Fact: It was first used in 1893, and there are plans to turn it into a museum.
This type of bear lives in British Columbia and nowhere else in the world.
The Kermode Bear (also known as the spirit or ghost bear)
The approximate number of years Indigenous peoples have lived here in Canada.
14,000 years
Fun Fact: The oldest village was found on Triquet Island in British Columbia.
The world’s smallest one of these can be found in the Yukon Territories.
Desert
Fun Fact: It is the Carcross Desert, which measures only 2.6 square kilometres.
This type of pizza was created by Sam Panapoulos in Chatham, Ontario, in 1962.
Hawaiian Pizza.
Canada has the oldest piece of this sports equipment.
Hockey Stick
Fun Fact: It dates back to 1830s Cape Breton, where it was carved from a single piece of sugar maple.