DID YOU KNOW.....
...Miami, Manitoba was named well before the Florida city, as First Nations people camping in the area called it "mother" or Miami?
...that Canada has six time zones? The easternmost, in Newfoundland, is three hours and 30 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).The other time zones are the Atlantic, the Eastern, the Central, the Rocky Mountain and, farthest west, the Pacific, which is eight hours behind GMT. Manitoba is in the Central time zone.
...at 9 970 610 km2, Canada is the world's second-largest country?
....Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories, each with its own capital city (in brackets): Alberta (Edmonton); British Columbia (Victoria); Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown); Manitoba (Winnipeg); New Brunswick (Fredericton); Nova Scotia (Halifax); Ontario (Toronto); Quebec (Quebec City); Saskatchewan (Regina); Newfoundland (St. John's); Northwest Territories (Yellowknife)and Yukon Territory (Whitehorse)? The Nunavut (Iqaluit) territory and government was officially established as of April 1, 1999.
...the plains of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are among the richest grain-producing regions in the world?
...a huge inland sea called Hudson Bay extends into the heart of Canada, and wrapped around this bay is a rocky region called the Canadian Shield? Canada's largest geographical feature, it stretches east to Labrador, south to Kingston on Lake Ontario and northwest as far as the Arctic Ocean.
...the Shield is considered to be the nucleus of the North American continent? Its gneiss and granite rocks are 3.5 billion years old, three-quarters the age of the Earth. Scraped by the advance and retreat of glaciers, the Shield has only a thin layer of soil that supports a boreal forest of spruce, fir, tamarack and pine.
...the region is a storehouse of minerals, including gold, silver, zinc, copper and uranium?