Some Interesting Facts About Canada

I realized that when I meet people in other countries, I'll probably get the occasional question asking about my country. Strangely, having lived here for over twenty years doesn't mean I've built up a ready supply of interesting facts about Canada. So I decided to do a bit of research. Here are some interesting tidbits about this fine country.

• Canada stretches across 5000 km and six time zones, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
• It's one of the world's top ten biggest traders; it has a lot of natural resources to export With over nine million km² of land.
• Canada is largest sulfur exporter in the world. It's not a very glorious achievement, but you can see one or two large, yellow hills of it near the harbour in Vancouver.
• Aboriginal people lived here for thousands of years, and the country's name comes from "Kanata," the Iroquoian word for "village."
• A lot of important inventions were made by Canadians: the telephone, TV, the lightbulb, basketball, and time zones.
• With over 200,000 immigrants per year, Canada is quite a multicultural country.
• Nobody knows of a "traditional Canadian food." Unless you count pemmican.

If you know more interesting facts about Canada, you can help me impress people with our country by dropping a comment below. (-;