CANADA


1.     Canada is the second largest country in the world, with 9,971,000 square kilometers of land. 
2.     With only three people per square kilometer, Canada has the fourth lowest population density in the world.
3.     The baseball glove was invented in Canada in 1883.
4.     Canada is the home of many other great inventions, including: basketball, the electric light bulb, the electric range, the electron microscope, standard time, the television, the telephone, and the zipper.
5.     The oldest person in Canada was Marie-Louise Meilleur. She was born in Kamouraska, Quebec on August 29, 1880 and died on April 16, 1998 at age 117.
6.     Of all of the world's producers of natural gas, copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, and gold, Canada is in the top five.
7.     Canadians consume more macoroni and cheese than any other nation on earth.
8.     The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada Highway which runs between Victoria, British Columbia on the west and St. John's, Newfoundland on the east. It has a length of 4,860 miles/7,821 kilometers.
9.     Canada has the longest street in the world, Yonge Street in Ontario. Young Street starts at Lake Ontario and runs north through central and northern Ontario to the Ontario-Minnesota border. It is a distance of over 1178 miles/1896 kilometers.
10.   Canada has the world's longest coastline: 202,080 km / 125,566 miles
11.   CP Rail’s 9 mile / 14.5 km long Mount Macdonald Tunnel, in the Rogers Pass area of British Columbia, is the longest tunnel on the continent.
12.   The world's smallest jail is believed to be in Rodney, Ontario, Canada. It is only 24.3 square meters (about 270 square feet).
13.   The Thousand Island Railway, which ran in Gananoque Ontario, is North America ’s shortest railway in history, just 5.43 km / 3.32 miles.
14.   The only walled city north of Mexico is Québec City, Québec.
15.   Canada has the tallest freestanding structure in the world.  Completed in 1975, the CN Tower in Toronto stands 553m (1815'  5")tall. 




MANITOBA

1.     The name Manitoba is believed to come from the words "manitowapow" (Cree) or "manito bau" (Ojibway), which mean "straight of the spirit" and refer to an island in Lake Manitoba Narrows where it is believed that a "manitou" or "great spirit" beat his drums.
2.     The beaver is the world's largest rodent and its luxurious pelt fuelled the 19th century fur trade, leading to the exploration and eventual settlement of Manitoba by Europeans.
3.     Churchill, Manitoba, is known as the "Polar Bear Capital of the World" for being the most accessible place to view polar bears in the wild. 
4.     Winnipeg was the first city in the world to develop the 911 emergency phone number.
5.     Manitoba basks in more than 2,300 hours of bright sunshine each year.
6.        Winnipeg has held the "Slurpee Capital of the World" title for six years in a row, gulping 400,000 of the semi-frozen soft drinks per month.
7.     A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" was named after a bear in the London Zoo that was named after the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
8.     The Royal Canadian Mint is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At full production, 15 million coins can be produced there each day.
9.     There is a lake in Manitoba called Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake, 54° 01' 42" N - 93° 32' 00" W. Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake- South of Red Sucker Lake. Native name (probably Cree) meaning wild angling, or literally, where the wild trout are caught by fishing with hooks. This is the longest official geographical name in Manitoba.
10.    Manitoba's 100,000 lakes cover approximately 17% or 101,600 km2 of its surface area.