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Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/1
...that 40% of French-speaking Quebecers have at least some sort of Irish ancestry?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/2
...that in 1944, Gwethalyn Graham was the first Canadian writer to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list, with a novel depicting an interfaith romance between a Protestant woman and a Jewish man?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/3
... that the graves of 13 Britons and a Jamaican trained at Royal Canadian Air Force Station Mount Hope during World War II, are still maintained in a local churchyard in Glanbrook, Ontario?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/4
...that curling is the provincial sport of Saskatchewan?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/5
...that the East and West Memorial Buildings in Ottawa, Canada were originally built in 1949 to house the rapidly growing Department of Veterans Affairs?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/6
...that Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan, which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/7
...that Ambloplites species are native to a region extending from the Hudson Bay basin in Canada to the lower Mississippi River basin in the United States?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/8
...that Nunavut has 24 hours of sunlight during the Summer while in the Winter there are only between 0 and 6 hours (depending on location)?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/9
...that Albertan politician Joseph Unwin was arrested for producing an official leaflet urging the "extermination" of opposition leader David Milwyn Duggan and Senator William Griesbach?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/10
...that the childhood home of Emily Carr, one of Canada's most famous painters, is open to the public today as a museum known as Emily Carr House — and still contains the family Bible?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/11
...that Canadian sculptor John Hooper (sculpture pictured) previously lived in England, China, India, and South Africa, and was a captain in the British Army?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/12
...that Canada's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/13
...that the St. Eugene Mine in Moyie, British Columbia produced ten million dollars worth of ore between 1895 and 1905 and was considered to be the most important silver–lead mine in Canada?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/14
...that the Cody Caves are part of the setting of the children's book, The Kootenay Kidnapper by Canadian author Eric Wilson?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/15
...that the Christina Lake in British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/16
...that Quebec City's Clarendon Hotel originally hosted the Queen's Printers for Canada?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/17
...that St. George's Golf and Country Club is rated as one of Canada's top three country clubs?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/18
...that Canada's first female columnist wrote under the pseudonym Faith Fenton so she could retain her day job as a teacher?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/19
...that Édouard Richard, a two-term member of the Canadian House of Commons and Acadian historian, practiced law with future Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/20
...that the Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard ferry, Sankaty, set fire to the famous whaler Charles W. Morgan before being commissioned as a minelayer by the Royal Canadian Navy?
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Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/21
...that Father Joseph Le Caron, the first European to see Lake Huron, also assisted at the first Catholic mass in Quebec and performed the first Christian marriage in Canada?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/22
...that the Hungarian-born Jew Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was successively a Presbyterian missionary in Canada, a British Member of Parliament, an international double agent, a German right-wing politician, and a Buddhist abbot in China?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/23
...that the Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse are among the oldest Canadian buildings of their type?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/24
...that the SS Moyie (pictured) was the last working sternwheeler in Canada and is the oldest intact sternwheeler in the world?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/25
...that Canadian musician Richard Bell was a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band and became a member of The Band during the 1990s?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/26
...that in the Calgary Flames' 1988-89 season, they became the only visiting team to defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup in the Montreal Forum?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/27
...that the initials of former Canadian Football League executive J.I. Albrecht stand for "Just Incredible"?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/28
...that John Sebastian Helmcken opposed British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation—until he negotiated the terms himself?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/29
...that Cecilia Krieger, who translated the work of Sierpinski into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/30
...that after taxiing past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402, BOAC flight 911 also crashed, with 188 total lives lost in less than a day?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/31
...that Tunnel Mountain (pictured) has never had a tunnel run through it, and the name is due to an error by Major A.B. Rogers while surveying for the Canadian Pacific Railway?
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...that Gustavus Blin Wright, a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada, built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/33
...that the Kipawa River in Quebec, Canada, is being considered for hydroelectric development which would completely divert it?
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...that John J. Clague won the Logan Medal, the highest award of the Geological Association of Canada, in 2007?
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...that Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada's second largest saline lake?
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...that Saskatchewan Highway 39 is one of the nation of Canada's busiest highways, providing ease of transport for $6 billion in trade goods via approximately 100,000 trucks over the year?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/37
...that the architecture of Ottawa is dominated by its role as the national capital of Canada?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/38
...that Canadian microbiologist John Dick was the first to isolate and identify a cancer stem cell?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/39
... that Bill Orban developed the 5BX plan to help Royal Canadian Air Force pilots keep fit?
Portal:Canada/Selected Did you know/40
...that General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
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