Despite being one of the coldest provinces in Canada, Manitoba has been dubbed the Slurpee capital of the world for a whopping seventeen years consecutively!
It’s been estimated that, on average, Canadians purchase 30 million Slurpees annually.
Now That's An Interesting Name
Did you know that there is a small town that has curiously been named Dildo in the Province of Newfoundland? While the name goes back by hundreds of years to 1711, no common explanation can be found for where the place name originates from.
While there have been multiple attempts to change the name, they have all failed, and the name remains as is to this day.
Terry Fox
In 1980, a cancer patient named Terry Fox ran 5,373 km, that's 3,339 miles, across Canada in 143 days before dying. Terry Fox had lost his leg, but he still managed to run the equivalent of a full marathon every day for 143 days!
There is an annual fundraiser that is run in his name, and it is the biggest one-day cancer fundraiser for research in the world, involving millions of participants in over 60 countries.
Now That's A Lot Of Water
Canada has an incredible amount of water; in fact, all of Canada's lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands contain one-fifth of the entire world's natural freshwater.
That's twenty percent of all the world's water, Canada certainly is a water-rich country.
Execution
Back in 1648, in a small village of New France in Canada, a military drummer was put on trial for being a homosexual.
The drummer was condemned to death, but after a last-minute intervention by Jesuit priests from the city of Quebec, the drummer's life was saved upon one condition: that he become New France's first official permanent executioner.