15 Rad Facts About Canada

Canadian culture is diverse and growing beautifully everyday; with Canada's 150th birthday quickly approaching, there is a lot of history and interesting things to embrace and learn about the country. Here's 15 facts about Canada!

• At the University of Toronto in 1921-22, Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best first replicated Insulin for patients suffering from diabetes.

• The east coast of Canada was settled by Vikings in approximately 1000 AD. You should definitely visit the bay of fundy and watch the high and low tides!

• The Moosehead Brewery in Saint John, New Brunswick turns out 1,642 bottles of beer per minute.

• One-tenth of the world’s forests are in Canada.

• Wasaga beach is the longest fresh water beach in the world.

• Ocean Falls, British Columbia has on average 330 days of rain per year. Nasty!

• The average Canadian watches 21 hours of television per week. 128,000 Canadian households have TV’s in the bathroom.

• Canadians generate 640 kilograms per person per year of waste.

• The world’s largest totem pole was raised in Victoria in 1994 and stands 54.94 metres tall.

• Cheddar is the most popular cheese in Canada. On average Canadians consume 23.4 pounds per person annually.

• Canada has 198 jails.

• The Regina Tornado of June 30, 1912, rated as F4, was the most severe tornado so far known in Canada. It killed 28 people, injured hundreds and destroyed most of the downtown area.

• The Northwest Territories is called The Land Of The Midnight Sun because the sun hardly sets around the summer solstice.

• Some of the world’s largest wheat fields are found in Saskatchewan.

• Montreal is the world’s second largest French speaking city after Paris.