Canada Day Trivia

With Canada Day just around the corner here is some Canadian Trivia!

• James Naismith, the Canadian who invented basketball, actually invented it in the US – in Springfield, Massachusetts while teaching athletics at a YMCA.
• An estimated 75% of all alcohol consumed in Canada is beer.
• There are more than 1400 airports in Canada.
• An estimated 60% of the global polar bear population can be found in Canada.
• Nearly 1/3 of Canada is forested.
• One in five Canadians were born in another country.
• Newfoundland was the first place in Canada settled by explorers - around 1000 AD, but it was the last province to join Canada – in 1949.
• There is a crater on Mars that is named after a Canadian city (NFLD); the Gander Crater.
• Next to Paris, France, Montreal is the largest city of French-speaking people in the world.
• Wasaga Beach, ON is home to the longest freshwater beach in the world.
• The oldest golf club in North America is the Royal Montreal Golf Club, founded in 1873.
• At nearly 55 metres (180 ft) in height, the tallest totem pole in the world stands in Victoria, BC.

Happy Canada Day!!!