🕳 Into the Rabbit Hole
The only Canadian province without a natural border of salt water.
What is Saskatchewan?
In 1812, Canadians burned down this famous building in Washington, D.C.
What is the White House?
This Manitoba town shares its name with a certain kind of sticky breakfast treat.
What is Flin Flon?
This Canadian astronaut played guitar while orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.
Who is Chris Hadfield
This cocktail, invented in Calgary in 1969, is Canada’s signature drink.
What is a Caesar?
This northern Canadian town has a law: if you see someone’s car unlocked, you’re supposed to check it for polar bears.
What is Churchill, Manitoba?
In 1917, this Nova Scotia city was devastated by the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bomb.
What is Halifax?
In Quebec, there’s a place called Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! — making it the only town in the world with this punctuation in its name.
What is the exclamation mark?
This Canadian singer famously sang “If I Were a Carpenter” and had a teddy bear named after her hometown.
Who is Anne Murray?
This Canadian province produces the most apples.
What is British Columbia?
This Ontario town has a UFO landing pad — officially opened in 1967 as part of Canada’s Centennial.
What is St. Paul, Alberta?
Canada’s first mounted police were originally sent west not to catch criminals, but to stop this.
What is American whiskey traders?
: A British Columbia town is named “100 ___ House.”
What is Mile?
This Canadian singer recorded “Both Sides Now” and was a huge international star from Saskatchewan.
Who is Joni Mitchell
Canada exports the largest quantity of this nut in the world.
What are hazelnuts?
This Ontario town celebrates a festival called “Elvis Fest,” one of the largest Elvis Presley gatherings in the world.
What is Collingwood?
This BC shipwreck in 1914 released so much lumber that locals built barns and houses from the floating wood.
What is the Princess Sophia?
This Nova Scotia town shares its name with a body part used for walking.
What is Toe? (Cape Breton also has “Lower Calf Pasture”)
This Canadian-born magician founded Cirque du Soleil in Quebec.
Who is Guy Laliberté?
Canada’s first commercial brewery was established in this city.
What is Montreal?
The oldest rocks on Earth, about 4.3 billion years old, were found in this Canadian province.
What is Quebec (Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt)?
The Canadian Pacific Railway imported thousands of these animals from Australia to help with the construction.
What are camels?
There’s a Nova Scotia community named after this musical instrument, usually played with strings.
What is Fiddlehead (or Banjo River, Banjo Bridge — Banjo is accepted)?
: This Canadian Prime Minister was known for consulting psychics and holding séances.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
In the Maritimes, this seafood is often smoked and served on sandwiches or in chowder.
What is smoked salmon?