We are learning about Canada. Canada is such an amazing Country. Canada is a vast and rugged land. From north to south it spans more than half the Northern Hemisphere. From east to west it stretches almost 4,700 miles (7,560 kilometers) across six time zones. It is the second largest country in the world, but it has only one-half of one percent of the world’s population.
Canada is the second largest country in the world by total area (Russia is the largest).
Canada is the most educated country: over half its residents have college degrees.
The Mounted Police were formed in 1873, with nine officers and in 1920 merged with the Dominion Police to become the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which today has close to 30 000 members.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world’s lakes combined.
The first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan war were from an American pilot bombing a training exercise.
Canada has the largest coastline in the world.