Canada Fun Fact #6 – Canada Post Helps Santa Claus Answer All His Letters!
Address: Santa Claus North Pole H0H 0H0 Did you ever write a letter to Santa when you were a kid? What did you ask him for? Every year on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus travels around the world in his sleigh pulled by reindeer, delivering presents to children everywhere! Before Christmas, kids […]
Canada Fun Fact #5: When William becomes King of England, Kate Middleton will be Queen of Canada!
Many countries around the world have a President as their head of state and a Prime Minister as the head of government. In some countries, the President is more powerful than the Prime Minister, while in other countries the Prime Minister is more powerful. In Canada, we don’t have a President. Our head of […]
Canada Fun Fact #4 – We Remember When Alanis Morissette Was a Teenage Dance-pop Singer Called ‘Alanis’! (video included)
When Alanis was 11 years old, she was on a Canadian sketch-comedy TV show called “You Can’t Do That on Television.” (You can watch some clips of the show on YouTube!) While she was still a teenager, Alanis moved into music. She had big curly hair and called herself just ‘Alanis.’ She recorded two albums […]
Canada Fun Fact #2 – Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a Canadian City!
Actually, the bear that inspired A.A. Milne to write the Winnie-the-Pooh stories was named after the Canadian city of Winnipeg! Winnie-the-Pooh is a character in two children’s books, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, written by A.A.Milne in the 1920s. In 1914, Harry Colebourn was a lieutenant in the Canadian army on his […]
Canada Fun Fact #1 – The southernmost point of Canada is south of the northern Californian border…and Rome, Italy!
It’s true! Everyone thinks of Canada as a northern country, but Canada extends so far north and so far south that we cover more lines of latitude than any other country on earth! On the eastern side of Canada, the provinces of Ontario and Quebec are separated from the United States by the Great Lakes […]
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