Canada Day & facts about Canada (2023 edition)

Hello everybody 

Two years ago I originally published my blog post about the facts about Canada & Canadian national day Canada Day. 

Well a lot has changed since 2021 so I thought I would want to do a updated edition about Canada facts (2023 edition). Here it goes. 😀🇨🇦 

Facts about Canada (based on my research).

Canada has two official languages. English & French. 

The capital city is Ottawa. 

Largest city is Toronto. 

Currency: Dollars (Canadian Dollars) & it has the King (the same British monarch) on every banknotes. 

National anthem is O’ Canada. 

The prime minister of Canada is Justin Trudeau. 

Here’s more further information. 

Hawaiian Pizza (with pineapple toppling) was invented in Canada. Yes, really in Canada (not in US state of Hawaii) by Sam Panopoulos. 

Canada is the second largest country in the world after Russia. 

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world’s lakes combined. 

Canada has the largest coastline in the world. 

Canada’s land border is the neighbour the United States as both nations shares land borders In 8 out of 13 provinces and territories.

Population in Canada is 40 million (as of June 2023). 

Quebec is the French speaking province in Canada. 

Canadian Parliament is based in Ottawa. 

Canada has 6 time zones. 

In sports, Canada is known for hockey. 🏑 particular ice hockey. 

National symbol of Canada is Maple leaf 🍁 

Canada has wildlife. Bears, goose (Canadian goose) & beaver. 

The name of Canadian syrup is maple syrup. 

Niagara Falls is the most popular tourist attractions for Canadians. It shares with USA (the state of New York). It is the largest waterfall by water volume. 

In terms of economics & GDP, Canada is on the list of countries that has the largest economies as Canada is ranked 10th.

Literacy rate in Canada is 99%

Life expectancy in Canada is 82 years. 

Lastly but not least, there are famous people who are from Canada & there are names that you might be familiar with & not familiar with. 

Justin Bieber

Drake 

Jim Carrey 

Celine Dion 

Michael Bublé 

The Weeknd 

Justin Trudeau 

William Shatner 

Avril Lavigne

Bryan Adams 

Even Elon Musk (who appears to hold three passports: South African, Canadian & American). 

The list goes on. 

So yeah, that is the information about the country Canada. I provided my research to my relative (my cousin) 4 years ago as an presentation for her on WhatsApp. She (my cousin & her close family: husband & two kids: daughter & son) have been living in Canada since 2019 when they did moved out from Nigeria. From 2019 to 2022 they have been living in Toronto, Ontario. Nowadays my cousin & her family lives in Calgary, Alberta & last month, they became newly Canadians by naturalisation. Perhaps I should be an honorary Canadian if that is possible. 😀🙂😁🍁🇨🇦

Anyhow I want to wish my readers (if you are Canadian) a very Happy Canada Day. 🇨🇦🍁😀🙂

Canada is one of the places that I would love to visit. It is one of my dream travel destination. The country that is an multicultural country (just like USA, European countries like France, Holland, Belgium, Germany & here in the UK) with diversity. So yeah, I would recommend anyone to visit Canada at least once in lifetime & make it your bucket list travel destination. 

And finally I went to Yesterday (29th June 2023) I went to Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross to attend Canada Day London event. It was very interesting to see the Canadian community, celebrating their national day (which actually the date is 1st of July = Canada Day). 😀🙂🇨🇦🍁

I am not really Canadian. Although I know some of my friends who are Canadians) so it was definitely a good fun at Trafalgar Square. 

So yeah, Happy Canada Day Canada. My second blog message wishing the country & the Canadian people. 😀🙂🇨🇦🍁