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Interesting Facts about Canada

Trivia, oddities, and curious tidbits about Canada.

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30 curious facts about Canada.

When a child loses a tooth they put tooth under their pillow and the Tooth Fairy comes.
In the Yellowknife Dene (Northwest Territories) area, when a child loses a tooth the mother or grandmother takes the tooth and puts it in a tree and then the family dances around it. This makes certain that the new tooth will grow in as straight as a tree.
The most extreme tides occur in the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. There the water level rises and falls more than 50 feet every six hours. The tide here comes in so fast that it can overtake a person trying to outrun it.
The CN Tower was built by the Canadian National Railway. At 181 storiess, it is the world's tallest building and free-standing structure Height of: § Glass Floor - 113 stories - 342m (1,122ft.) § Look Out Level - 114 stories- 346m (1,136ft.) § Sky Pod - 147 stories- 447m (1,465ft.) . Opened to the public on June 26, 1976. Official opening on October 1, 1976 Original cost: $63 million Adjusted cost (1999 dollars): $260 million Construction started on February 6, 1973 Total construction time: 40 months Tower sphere construction (middle portion) started on August 1974 Antenna construction started on March 1975 Construction of The Tower was completed on February 22, 1974, and the antenna was completed on April 2, 1975 Number of construction workers: 1,537 Total weight of the Tower: 117,910 metric tonnes (130,000 tons) Volume of concrete: 40,523.8 cubic meters (53,000 cubic yards) Tensioned steel: 128.7km (80 miles) Reinforcing steel: 4,535 metric tonnes (5,000 tons) Structural steel: 544.2 metric tonnes (600 tons).

The world's largest mall is the West Edmonton Mall which occupies 5.3 million square feet. More than 800 stores and services reside there.
Most Inuit live in Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut, in Canada’s Far North. Nunavut became Canada’s third territory in April 1999. The word “Inuit” means “the people” in Inuktitut. The territory has about 20,000 inhabitants.
Niagara Falls is one of Canada’s most famous landmarks. The Canadian falls are 54 meters high and horseshoe-shaped. Part of the huge volume of water in the Niagara River has been diverted from the falls; it enters an underground tunnel leading to a hydroelectric plant.
Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island, is connected to the mainland by a long bridge that opened in 1998. The 12.9-km-long Confederation Bridge was designed by Canadian engineers to withstand ice, wind, and even boats crashing into it
When the French explorer Jacques Cartier travelled up the St. Lawrence River in 1534, he asked the indigenous peoples what they called their land. They answered “ Kanata”. In Huron-Iroquois the word meant village, but Cartier wrote “ Canada” on his map for the whole country.
When Canada was a more rural society, parents often had many children to help run the family farm. Today less than a quarter of all Canadians live in rural areas. Families tend to be smaller. The average family size is only three people.

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