Canada Day 2018



A mari usque ad mare, 37 million mark Canada’s 151st birthday with parades, picnics and fireworks.
Citizens of Burundi, Rwanda and Somalia mark their independence days this July 1st.
The fewest babies are born in the month of February.
It is estimated that as many as 20,000 shipwrecks lay in watery graves, off the coast of Atlantic Canada.
Our main exports are hockey stars and cold fronts. Our #1 imports are baseball players and acid rain. ~Pierre Trudeau

A third of Montréalers change residences on July 1st, earning the unofficial holiday nickname of ‘Moving Day’.
Camel's milk is richer in iron, vitamins, minerals and contains less fat than cow’s milk.
Titanium has the highest tensile strength to density ratio of any metal; Tungsten ranks #2.
Flying high over the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada’s largest flag measures 18 metres by nine.
Canada is America’s attic. 


Mormons worship in 159 temples in more than 40 countries-11 more are currently under construction. 
Today in 1873, the Colony of Prince Edward Island joined Confederation as our fifth province.
This March, Albertans bought  21,218 new motor vehicles while PE Islanders bought 551.
There are more than 1,000 flavours of ice cream around the globe.
“Canada? I don’t even know what street it’s on.” ~Al Capone
Today in 1958, CBC/Radio Canada linked microwave towers from St. John’s to Victoria, permitting live simulcasts in all seven time zones.
1,843 Christmas Islanders watch five Australian broadcasters on 600 television receivers. 
When frozen, tofu turns yellow.
We are unknown to the world because our only visitors are the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

For Canada’s 100th, Ottawa gave all 20.4 million of us national health care on July 1st.
The Rolls-Royce of home entertainment, Bang & Olufsen has pleasured us for 93 years.
To the fallen and veterans, this is the 101st Memorial Day in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Of 450,000 centenarians, the US and Japan have the most citizens 100 years old and more.
Today in 1980, O Canada became our national anthem; God Save the Queen our Royal Anthem. 


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