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Wayne Gretsky: holds just about every significant scoring record of the National Hockey League and is consistently ranked as the greatest ice hockey player of all time. Read more
The 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada, were marred by boycotts and drug allegations. In the end, 26 African countries boycotted the Games. Read more
The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989): written/directed by Colin Brunton. A filmmaker searches for two Canadians who flew to the moon in 1959, but because they were Canadian, were too modest to tell anybody about it. Source: IMDb
800: the number of shops and restaurants in the West Edmonton Mall, in Alberta, Canada. It is the largest shopping centre in the world and also has a dolphin show and the world's largest indoor lake with four working submarines.
Loonie or loony: the colloquial name for Canada's dollar coin, which came out in 1987. The plural is loonies.
National Anthem: O Canada
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Fried Beaver Tail
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The longest place names in Canada are PEKWACHNAMAYKOSKWASKWAYPINWANIK LAKE in Manitoba (31 letters, not counting "lake") and ILE KUCHISTINIWAMISKAHIKAN in Quebec. Source: Word Oddities
Saul Bellow: born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915., he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976 "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work". Read more
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. (Robertson Davies)
I don't even know what street Canada is on. (Al Capone)
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