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Alert, in Nunavut territory, is the northernmost permanent settlement in the world.

 

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Canada became a country on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act was passed by the British Parliament.

 

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The Mounted Police were formed in 1873, with nine officers. In 1920, the Mounted Police merged with the Dominion Police to become the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police, an organization that now has more than 28,000 members.

 

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Ice hockey is Canada's official national game. The modern game of ice hockey was developed in Canada, based on games that have been played since the tenth century. The rules were first published in the Montreal Gazette in 1877.

 

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Canadian James Naismith invented basketball to give his physical education students at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, an indoor team sport to play during the long winters.

 

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The capital city, Ottawa, was originally named Bytown after Colonel John By, who headquartered there while building the Rideau Canal to connect the Ottawa River with Lake Ontario.

 

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Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world at 151,600 miles.

The regent of England, currently Queen Elizabeth II, is the Canadian head of state.

North America's earliest undisputed evidence of human activity, 20,000-year-old stone tools and animal bones have been found in caves on the Bluefish River in northern Yukon.

North America's lowest recorded temperature was -81.4 degrees Fahrenheit (-63 C) at Snag, Yukon Territory, on February 3, 1947.

Canada is known as the home of large animals like the moose and grizzly bear, but it is also home to about 55,000 species of insects and about 11,000 species of mites and spiders.

Canada contains 9% of the world's renewable water supply.

The official languages of Canada are English and French. Throughout Canada's history up to the current time, there have been conflicts between English and French-speaking Canadians.

Tensions between French Canada and English Canada reached a head in October 1970, when the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ)—a terrorist organization that had bombed cities, robbed banks, and committed a number of other crimes—kidnapped the U.K. Trade Commissioner, Richard Cross. The army put an end to the revolt and arrested several hundred suspects.

In 1527, John Rut of St. John's, Newfoundland, sent a letter to King Henry VIII—the first letter sent from North America.

Charles Fenerty, a poet from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was the first person to use wood fibers to make paper. He started experimenting in 1839 and produced paper from wood pulp in 1841.

 

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Canadians have made many important inventions, including Kerosene, the electron microscope, the electronic organ, insulin, the IMAX film system, the snowmobile, and the electric cooking range.

Canada is a major producer and consumer of cheese. In 1997, Canadians produced 350,000 tons of at least 32 varieties of cheese and ate an average of 23.4 pounds per person, with cheddar being the most popular.

Many famous authors have come from Canada, including Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), and Alice Munro (Lives of Girls and Women).

A black bear cub from Canada named Winnipeg (or “Winnie,” for short) was one of the most popular attractions at the London Zoo after it was donated to the zoo in 1915. Winnie became a favorite of Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the stories written by his father, A.A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh.

The Moosehead Brewery in Saint John, New Brunswick, turns out 1,642 bottles of beer per minute.

Guy Lombardo of London, Ontario, first heard “Auld Lang Syne” as a teenage musician, when he and his brothers toured the rural areas that had been settled by Scots around his hometown.

Canada has made a significant contribution to rock and roll, beginning with “Sh-Boom” by the Crew-Cuts in 1954. Other famous Canadian rock-and-rollers include Paul Anka, Neil Young, the Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Steppenwolf, Avril Lavigne, Rush, Bryan Adams, and Barenaked Ladies.

Cryptozoologists claim that Canada is the home of several cryptids, including Sasquatch, a giant sloth-like creature known as the beaver-eater, a cannibalistic wildman named Windigo, and a number of lake monsters, such as Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia.

The natives of eastern Canada tell several stories of a mythical giant named Glooscap, who carved out many of the region's natural features to help him overcome his evil twin brothers. It is believed that these Glooscap stories might be the origin of many of the Paul Bunyan legends.

The world's strongest current is found in the Nakwakto Rapids at Slingsby Channel, British Columbia. The current has been measured at speeds up to 18.4 miles per hour.

The West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, was once the world's largest shopping mall. It now ranks fifth, but it still contains the world's largest indoor amusement park.

Alberta has 50% of the world's supply of bitumen.

The CN Tower in Toronto was the world's tallest free-standing structure until it was eclipsed in 2007.

Manitou Lake on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron is the world's largest lake within a lake (41.1 square miles).

 

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[VMK_MagicalLadee]

i has stuffing

 

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wheee

 

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Either TB looses their game (COME ON KC! IT'S TIED 2-2 IN THE 8TH- I THINK- ONE MORE RUN AND Y'ALL CAN BEAT TAMPA!) and the Yankees & TB win the division, or TB wins their game, wins the division, and we get the wild card. Either way, we're going to the play offs and because we're going to the play offs, BOSTON ISN'T HAHAHAHAHAHA. HOW DO YOU LIKE US NOW BOSTON?! SUCKERS! We've beaten you once again. Oh, the glory. I love it, love it love it love it love it.

Bye Fat *** Papi, ta ta Jacob Pee, adios all-the-other-people-on-Boston-whose-names-I-don't-know-because-I-don't-care-about-them

We've beaten you again losers

Ok Sara's done rubbing it in Boston's faces... for now

 

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I've started looking into colleges
I actually have a "transitional meeting" on Wednesday.

 

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Transitional meeting?

 

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Transitional meeting?

As in the transition from high school to college. I'm really looking forward to college... all in all high school has been pretty good so far, but the bad is starting to outweigh the good; I need a fresh start, really.

 

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And the countdown begins... 3 weeks until I find out if I'll be in Disneyworld for a year.

 

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by then ill have my wisdom teef out D: