Downtown Calgary is arguably the densest downtown area of any city of its size in North America. You can walk 18 kilometers through downtown Calgary without going outside.
Their +15 walkway is 15 feet above the ground and was built to help pedestrians get around during the brutal winter temperatures. The +15 system is the largest of its kind in the world!
For the Animals
Banff National Park has spent millions building animal overpasses. The Trans Canada highway can be a dangerous place for even the largest of wild Canadian animals.
In Banff, they’ve poured money into building overpasses that prevent road accidents and save the lives of thousands of animals and humans each year.
Forget, Saskatchewan
If you were ever driving along Highway 13 in Saskatchewan, it would be easy to pass by this small village without much notice. With just one operating business, a church, and some abandoned buildings, the tiny, two-block settlement in Saskatchewan's south-eastern corner doesn't seem like much.
With miles of monochromatic farmland stretch in every direction, and the skeletons of maple, poplar, and ash trees standing guard along the town’s border. This may be why they named this little town, Forget. Now, what were we talking about?
Orca FM
Vancouver Island has its very own whale radio station, that right; it plays the sounds of whales 24/7. Unsurprisingly, it’s named Orca FM, and it was the world’s first All-Whales-All-The-Time radio station. It began to broadcast from a killer whale sanctuary along Vancouver Island in 1998.
Their whale calls were picked up for ORCA FM by an offshore underwater microphone located in 30 meters of water. The radio signal was broadcast over a 15-km radius of the Johnstone Strait area and was transmitted at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh was, in a roundabout way, named for the city of Winnipeg. A.A. Milne often visited a Canadian black bear at the London Zoo, named Winnie, after the town of Winnipeg.
Milne subsequently named his character bear after the real bear. In the beginning, it explained that Pooh was, in fact, Christopher Robin's Edward Bear, who had been renamed by the boy.