Landmarks
This famous waterfall is located on the border between Canada and the United States.
What is Niagara Falls?
Niagara Falls is located on the border between Canada and the United States.
This not-so-small rodent is Canadian national animal and known for building dams.
What is a beaver?
The beaver was given official status as an emblem of Canada when an Act to provide for the recognition of the beaver as a symbol of the sovereignty of Canada received royal assent on March 24, 1975.
This sweet spread made from boiled maple sap is a Canadian specialty.
What is maple syrup?
Canada produces 85 per cent of the world's maple syrup, often referred to as liquid gold. In 2020, Canada exported nearly 135 million pounds of maple syrup, worth more than $515 million. Why Canada? Freezing nights and warm days are needed for the maple sap to flow properly, and Eastern North America has the ideal climate.
This Canadian sport, invented in 1891, became popular worldwide and was included in the Olympic Games.
What is basketball?
The game was invented by Springfield College instructor James Naismith in 1891. He defined the 13 rules that make up the worldwide athletic phenomenon we know it to be today.
The country’s name is derived from “Kanata”, a Huron-Iroquois word meaning ______. And it came about through a polite misunderstanding (so Canadian).
What is a village (settlement)?
Two Indigenous youths used this word to describe the settlement of Stadacona (now Quebec City) to European explorer Jacques Cartier. Cartier then used “Canada” to describe a bigger area beyond Stadacona. The use of this name soon spread throughout the entire region, surpassing its former name, New France.
What is a Canuck then?
This stunning Canadian landmark is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the oldest national parks in the world.
What is Banff National Park?
You could walk to San Francisco before you explored all of the 1,600 kilometers of hiking trails - and these are just the maintained trails!
Some Banff National Park lakes are extremely blue, even emerald sometimes, and popular urban legend says that someone drained and painted the lake beds.
This Canadian animal was a real-life inspiration behind a beloved character of kids book and the best friend of Christopher Robin.
What is a bear? (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Winnie-the-Pooh was based on a real-life bear who lived in the London Zoo. He got there thanks to a Canadian soldier and veterinarian named Harry Colebourn who found HER in White River, Ontario.
A Canadian dish made of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy.
What is a poutine?
The word poutine is widely accepted to originate from the English word pudding (or pouding in French). Since pudding was often used as a way to mix a variety of foods, in Québec, the term poutine became a French-Canadian slang word for mess.
Which significant Canadian discovery, made in 1921, revolutionized the treatment of diabetes?
What is insulin?
Up until the early 20th century, diabetes was a fatal disease. Thanks to a Canadian team of researchers – Frederick Banting, Charles Herbert Best, John J.R. Macleod, and James Bertram Collip – a treatment was discovered in 1921, when they succeeded in isolating and purifying insulin.
Canadians put _____ in bags
What is milk?
75% of Canadian’s drink their milk from a bag (4l). This is because milk in bags is more cost-effective than milk in bottles or cartons. Although residents of Alberta are all about cartons.
Translated as “in the image of a person” from the Inuktitut language, you can find these stone markers in British Columbia (and comically in souvenir shops of Toronto).
What is Inukshuk?
Inukshuks serve several functions, including guiding travellers, warning of danger, assisting hunters and marking places of reverence. It is illegal to destroy one.
In Canada, it is common to find roadside signs indicating these animals crossings to warn drivers of the potential presence of these giants.
What is a moose?
Across Canada, 236 people died in moose–vehicle collisions and 123 people were killed in collisions with deer between 2000 and 2014. Injuries were far more common than deaths.
Canada eats this sweet treat more than any other country in the world.
What is a doughnut?
We also have more doughnut shops per capita than any other country in the world. Each year 30 million people eat over 1 billion donuts.
What groundbreaking medical device, invented by a Canadian engineer, helps regulate heartbeats?
What is the pacemaker?
John A. Hopps from the National Research Council of Canada created a portable artificial external pacemaker. It was designed to send electric pulses to the heart, which caused the heart to contract and pump blood to the body. The device was successfully tested on a dog in 1950.
________(country) and Canada have fought over an uninhabited island in the Arctic since the 1930s. Their manner of warfare is quite unusual.
What is Denmark?
Canada and Denmark have fought over an uninhabited island in the Arctic since the 1930s. They leave each other bottles of alcohol and change their flags. The Canadian’s leave Canadian Rye Whiskey and the Danish a bottle of Dutch schnapps.
These educational institutions existed specifically for Indigenous children from the 17th century until the late 1990s.
What are residential schools?
It is estimated that at least 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children attended residential schools during this period. The system was imposed on Indigenous peoples as part of a broad set of assimilation efforts to destroy their rich cultures and identities and to suppress their histories.
This bird is Canada's national symbol and is featured on the Canadian one-dollar coin.
What is a common loon?
The loonie refers to the $1 Canadian coin and derives its nickname from the picture of a solitary loon on the reverse side of the coin.
What is a toonie then? ◡̈
This Canadian snack food consists of fried dough topped with various sweet or savoury toppings. It is also shaped as a symbolic mascot of Canada.
What is the BeaverTail?
The beginning of its history can be traced back to the 19th century, when aboriginals would cook the tails of beavers over an open fire until the skin cracked and loosened, giving way to the meat inside.
This genius Canadian invention that helps to seal in odours and messes became a burden for the modern world.
What is a garbage bag?
Harry Wasylyk, a Canadian inventor from Winnipeg, Manitoba is usually acknowledged as the inventor of the plastic trash bag as it is known today. Along with Larry Hansen of Lindsay, Ontario the first green polyethylene bag was produced. Trouble is: polyethylene products don't biodegrade. They just break down into smaller pieces that often get eaten by other animals but can't be digested.
There is an adult-entertainment facility in Ontario doubles as a _____ on Sundays.
What is a church?
In Guelph, local bylaws forbid any other adult-entertainment facilities other than the Manor. For a few hours on Sunday afternoons, the gentleman's club becomes a holy place, a social place, and a place where people can find safety and trust and food.
The only a geological wonder that allows visitors to step back in time literary. However, it will probably disappear between 2040 and 2100.
What is the Athabasca Glacier?
The Athabasca Glacier is located in the Canadian Rockies and is one of the principal 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield, Jasper National Park. It's North America's most-visited glacier. The daily trips of 'Experience the Athabasca Glacier' is open to tourists aged 12 and above. Guests need no previous experience, however, participants must be capable of going on a short hike or climbing a ladder.
Manitoba in Canada has the largest concentration of these animals (or rather reptiles) in the world.
What is a snake?
Canada has the snake capital of the world - Manitoba. It has the largest concentration of snakes in the world. Around 70,000 snakes come out of hibernation each year in the Praire province. The most popular type of snake is the red-sided garter snake.
This real part of human body is served in a cocktail in Dawson City, Yukon.
What is a toe?
A Sour Toe cocktail is any alcohol with a real mummified human toe in the bottom. Sour Cocktail Rules: "Drink it Fast; Drink it Slow
but your lips have gotta touch the toe!”
This iconic superhero wears blue tights and a red cape.
Who is Superman?
Superman was co-created by Jerry Siegal and Canadian Joe Shuster. The Daily Planet is based on the Torono Star and Metropolis is based on Toronto not New York City.
If you are in a public place and have an offending ____ you may well end up with two years in a Canadian jail.
What is a smell?
Though aimed at preventing the use of stink-bombs in public places, the wording of this law prohibits any “offensive volatile substance” (smell) that causes “discomfort” in public places. Pass gas at your own peril in Canada!