The Hopewell Rocks in the Bay of Fundy.
74. Prince Edward Island, Canada’s smallest province, is only 225 kilome- tres long and 56 kilometres wide.
75. Nova Scotia’s Sable Island is in- habited by wild horses. A ship bring- ing horses in the 18th century ran aground, and the horses, more fortu- nate than the crew, survived and have been living there ever since.
76. Point Pleasant Park, Nova Scotia is part of Britain. Te province rents it for 10 cents a year and has a 999-year lease.
77. Newfoundland and Labrador are one province. Labrador is a landmass connected to Canada while New- foundland is an island. Approximately 95 per cent of the population live on the island, and of which 60 per cent are in the city of St. John’s.
78. Newfoundland, but not Labrador, has its own time zone, which varies by a half hour rather than the normal hour. Te government tried to change the province to Atlantic Standard Time but withdrew based on heavy opposition from the public who are proud of their unique time zone.
79. Gros Morne National Park, New- foundland was created by continental collisions and is a stark treeless barren where you can view the ancient ocean’s floor and eons' worth of marine fossils at 40 different sites.
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80. Te island of Newfoundland has no crickets, snakes, skunks, deer or groundhogs. However, it does have the most moose in all of Canada, number- ing around 100,000.
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81. Canada has two official languag- es, English and French. Canadians however speak more than 200 other languages at home. In the 2011 cen- sus, over 80 per cent of the popula- tion reported speaking an immigrant language at home (not English or French).
82. Our motto, A Mari usque ad Mare, means "From sea to sea."
83. Animals associated with Canada include the beaver (immortalized on our nickel), the Canada goose, polar bear, moose, caribou and of course the loon which is featured on our loonie or $1 coin.
84. Tere are nearly 2.5 million cari- bou in Canada; in other parts of the world they are called reindeer.
85. Canada has the longest coastline in the world stretching 202,080.50 ki- lometers.
86. Canada is bounded by the Atlan- tic Ocean, Arctic Ocean and Pacific Ocean as well as Hudson Bay.
87. Canada and the United States share the longest international border in the world, dubbed the International
Boundary. It is 8,892 kilometres and lacks military defense.
88. A 9,984,607 kilometres Canada is the second largest country in the world; Russia is first.
89. Canada has the most freshwater lakes in the world, more than 50 per cent of the world’s lakes are situated here, and make up 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater.
90. Canada's lowest recorded tem- perature was -81.4 F (-63 C) at Snag, Yukon, on Feb. 3, 1947.
91. Canada is home to 42 national parks, 167 national historic sites and four marine conservation areas.
92. Tere are 15 UNESCO world heritage sites in Canada. Te one with the most interesting name is Head- Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump. Tis was used by indigenous people to kill buf- falo by chasing them over the cliff. At the base of the hill another group would wait to break down the animal into all its usable parts.
93. Canada has six time zones, 10 provinces and three territories.
94. With one-tenth of the world’s for- ests located here, it is no surprise that half of Canada is covered with forests.
95. In the 1960s an “anti-gravity zone” surrounding Hudson Bay was discov- ered. Te area has less gravity than anywhere else on earth. It’s believed
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