Canada Day: Fun facts about Canada
Posted Jul 1, 2013 11:52:05 AM.
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1310News’ resident trivia champion Chris Duffy offers some fun facts about Canada that will help you win your next game or at least a couple of bar bets.
- Canada is big — really big. At nearly 1-billion square kilometres, Canada is the second biggest country in the world after Russia.
- But with a population density of 3.41 people per square kilometre, we’ve got a lot of room to spread out — in fact 227 countries have less elbow room than we do.
- While it may not be front of mind in July, extreme cold is as Canadian a characteristic as you can find. North America’s lowest recorded temperature was -63 C at Snag, Yukon, on Feb. 3, 1947.
- We’ve taken a lot of jabs from the U.S. for our Monopoly-coloured Canadian currency, but what most don’t realize is the green ink used for American money was invented at McGill University in Montreal in 1857 by Thomas Sterry Hunt.
Do you know some fun trivia about Canada? Let us know in the comments section below.
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