Canada

Welcome to CanadaCanada has 10 unique Provinces

ProvincesDates of Canadian Province and Territory Formation

1867 - Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick

1870 - Manitoba, Northwest Territories (N.W.T.)

1871 - British Columbia

1873 - Prince Edward Island

1880 - Transfer of the Arctic Islands (to N.W.T.)

1898 - Yukon Territory

1905 - Alberta, Saskatchewan

1949 - Newfoundland and Labrador

1999 - Nunavut

Capital CitiesCanada’s Capital Cities

Province/TerritoryCapital City

CanadaOttawa

Newfoundland & LabradorSt. John's

Prince Edward IslandCharlottetown

Nova ScotiaHalifax

New BrunswickFredericton

QuebecQuebec City

OntarioToronto

ManitobaWinnipeg

SaskatchewanRegina

AlbertaEdmonton

British ColumbiaVictoria

YukonWhitehorse

North West TerritoriesYellowknife

NunavutIqaluit

Canada PopulationsLocation

PopulationCanada

34,880,491Newfoundland & Labrador

512,659Prince Edward Island

146,145Nova Scotia

948,695New Brunswick

755,950Quebec

8,054,756Ontario

13,505,900Manitoba

1,267,003Saskatchewan

1,079,958Alberta

3,873,745British Columbia

4,622,573Yukon

36,101North West Territories

43,349Nunavut

33,697Figures from Statistics Canada, 2012 preliminary postcensal estimates.

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Interesting facts

Basketball – A Canadian Invention

Basketball was invented by a Canadian – Dr. James Naismith. He was born on November 6, 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario. His mother and father had immigrated to Canada from Scotland.While at school Naismith’s played a game called duck-on-a-rock, trying to knock a “duck” off the top of a large rock by throwing another rock at it. He remembered this when tasked with devising an indoor, winter game for 18 students at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. He wanted to provide students with an activity that required skill and not strength. Basketball was the result.

Facts about CanadaThe Good Oil – From CanadaCanada produces more oil than it consumes

Canada produces more oil than it needs for domestic consumption.

Nearly all of the surplus is exported to the USA.

The USA buys more oil from Canada than from any other country, including Saudi Arabia.

Facts continued

Good Eggs – Eggs in CanadaEach Canadian eats an average of about 190 eggs a year.In total, Canada has about 20 million egg-laying hens laying about 7 billion eggs each year.Canada has just over one thousand regulated egg farms with an average of between 17,000 and 18,000 hens each.One egg farm in the United States, which is home to about 280 million egg-laying hens, can produce as many eggs as all of the egg farms in Canada combined.