Canada was once considered to be home of the longest street – well, kind of. Yonge Street intersects with five other major streets in the downtown area. It was known as the world’s longest street until 1999; even the Guinness Book of World Records repeated the misconception. This was due to a conflation of Yonge Street with the rest of Ontario’s Highway 11.
In fact, Yonge Street did form a part of Highway 11, which led to those claims about Yonge Street being the longest street in the world. But Yonge Street could only claim that title if it were fully connected with Highway 11, which has never been the case.
Canada's Ice Hotel
The famous Hotel de Glace in Quebec is built using 400 tons of ice and 12 000 tons of snow. The Hotels is just a 15-minute drive from Quebec City, with the point of being fully immersed in the unique, snowy, and icy surrounds.
The Hotel de Glace has 45 rooms, each designed with a different theme, with some rooms even having their very own fireplaces! Since the hotel melts every summer, the hotel is built from scratch in winter, and each year it's designed with a brand new theme.
The Largest Source of Fresh Water
With its millions of lakes and rivers, it’s not surprising that Canada has earned this title. For instance, the Estuary and the Gulf of St. Lawrence is one of the largest and deepest estuaries in the world. Its water comes from the Great Lakes, a series of interconnected freshwater lakes in the upper mid-east region of North America.
It mixes with oceanic saltwater as it widens into a large estuary - a water passage where the tide meets a river current - near Ile d’Orléans.
Moving to Canada
On election night in 2016, searches for "move to Canada" on Google spiked so aggressively that the Canadian Citizenship and Immigration website crashed. Being a new world country, immigration has been, and remains, the most important factor in Canada's population growth.
Canada has one of the highest immigration rates per capita among developed nations. Altogether, 22.3% of the Canadian population identifies as a visible minority and 21.9% as foreign-born. 341,000 new permanent residents were welcomed to Canada in 2019, and that number does not include temporary workers or foreign students.
French, Please!
Montreal is the world's second-largest French-speaking city after Paris. Despite being in Canada, Montreal is a French province. Although many people in Montreal speak English, you will find that English is rarely used in any other part of the province.
Around 70 percent of Montreal residents speak French as their primary language at home, and Quebec is the only province where French is the sole official language.