Some interesting facts about Canada and famous places
Some interesting facts about Canada and famous places Veronika Kovalenko 11 -F
1. Canada is home to the longest street in the world. Yonge Street in Ontario starts at Lake Ontario, and runs north through Ontario to the Minnesota border, a distance of almost 2000 kilometres.
2. A bear cub named Winnipeg was exported from Canada to the London Zoo in 1915. A little boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved to visit Winnipeg (or Winnie for short) and his love for the bear cub inspired the stories written by his father, A. A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh.
3. Canada is home to about 55 000 different species of insects.
4. Canadians consume more macaroni and cheese than any other country in the world.
5. Hockey and lacrosse are the national sports in Canada.
6. The Hotel de Glace in Quebec is built every year using 400 tons of ice and 12 000 tons of snow. Every summer it melts away and every winter it is rebuilt.
Places Peyto Lake (pea-toe) is a glacier-fed lake located in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies.
A powerful, picturesque waterfall, Athabasca Falls in Jasper National Park.
Maligne Lake is a lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It is famed for the colour of its water, the surrounding peaks, the three glaciers visible from the lake and Spirit Island, one of the most photographed locations in the world.
Sunwapta Falls is a waterfall of the Sunwapta River located in Jasper National Park, Canada.
Medicine Lake is located within Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Bow Lake is a small lake in western Alberta, Canada. It is located on the Bow River, in the Canadian Rockies, at an altitude of 1920 m.
Lake Agnes is a small mountain lake in the Banff National Park of Alberta, Canada.
Lake Louise, named Lake of the Little Fishes by the Stoney Nakoda First Nations people, is a glacial lake within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
Moraine Lake is a glacially-fed lake in Banff National Park, Canada.
Niagara Falls is waterfall in east central North America, located on the Niagara River.
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