Alert, NWT is the northern most inhabited area of Canada.


53. Alberta parks. Banff National Park is the oldest and first Canadian na- tional park and Jasper National Park is Canada’s largest mountainous national park.


54. We love our animals! Banff Na- tional Park has highway overpasses for wildlife to cross safely. Narcisse, Manitoba has a passageway under the highway for snakes.


55. Te world’s most northerly sand dunes are in Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park, Saskatchewan. Tey are 30 metres tall or approximately 100 feet high.


56. Saskatchewan has some of the world’s largest wheat fields.


57. Narcisse, located north of Winni- peg, is the most northern home of the largest group of garter snakes in the world. In the spring people and scien- tists from all over the world come to see and study them as they leave their dens.


58. Churchill, Manitoba is home to 60 per cent of the world’s polar bears, ap- proximately 25,000. Te town sees the world’s largest polar bear migration and has drawn tourists from all over the world.


59. Did you know you can swim with beluga whales in Churchill, Manitoba? It is home to an estimated 60,000 be- lugas!


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60. Te intersection of Portage Av- enue and Main Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba has been called the windiest place in Canada.


61. Manitoba is home to the longest place name in Canada: Pekwach- namaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake, Manitoba. Tis tiny lake’s name means "where the wild trout are caught by fishing with hooks."


62. International Peace Gardens in Boissevain, Manitoba is the only gar- den that straddles an international boundary between two countries, Manitoba in Canada and North Da- kota in the United States.


63. Yikes, the CN Tower in Toronto is struck by lightning approximately 75 times each year!


64. Toronto’s Yonge Street is the lon- gest street in Canada.


65. Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Ontario is the largest island surround- ed by freshwater in the world.


66. Wasaga Beach, Ontario is the lon- gest fresh water beach in the world.


67. Te Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Ontario, a UNESCO world heritage site, used to have the world’s longest skating rink in the winter, a title now claimed by Winnipeg’s Red River Mutual Trail. Te three-kilometre and growing skating trail on the Red and Assiniboine Rivers runs from Te


Confederation Bridge. Forks harbour to Churchill Park.


68. Mingan Archipelago National Park, north of Anticosti Island, Que- bec consists of 100 forested islands and over 2000 islets. Its reefs are teeming with fish, blue whales, seals, porpoises and puffins. Te sea has sculpted spec- tacular rock shapes on the islands.


69. Quebec City’s Hotel de Glace is the only ice hotel in North America. It requires 30 thousand tons of snow to build and 500 tons of ice. Tempera- tures inside range from a brisk -3°C to -5°C. Te hotel opens from the begin- ning of January to the end of March.


70. Quebec is the only walled city north of Mexico and has been added to the UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list.


71. Montmorency Falls in Quebec are 30 metres higher than Canada’s iconic Niagara Falls in Ontario.


72. Te Bay of Fundy in New Bruns- wick has the


highest tides in the


world. Tides can reach an incredible height of 16 metres, or 53 feet. When the tides go out, they leave behind an amazing landscape where people can walk along the floor of the ocean.


73. Te Confederation Bridge joining New Brunswick to Prince Edward Is- land is the longest in the world cross- ing ice-covered water at 12.9 kilome- tres.


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