Author: Clint Curtis

Cape Spear, Newfoundland and Labrador, is the most easterly point in North America. Its cliffs are made up of sedimentary rock. Percé Rock is a natural arch off the coast of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. It is made of limestone, another type of sedimentary rock. What rocks are in Canada? Granites and basalts are […]

Opened in 1949, the first shopping mall in Canada is the Norgate shopping centre, a strip mall in Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec. Do other countries have strip malls? In some cases, strips malls are broken up into smaller buildings to encourage walking. Sometimes the buildings will wrap around the parking lot to hide the parking from […]

Founded on 2 May 1670, the Hudson’s Bay Company opened its first department store in 1881 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hudson’s Bay (department store) Flagship store in Toronto Number of locations 85 Full Line and 1 Warehouse Store Area served Canada What is the oldest store in Canada? Trousdale’s General StoreWith roots dating back to 1836, […]

11 beautiful places to visit during Canadian winter 1- WHISTLER | BRITISH COLUMBIA. 2- MOUNT EDITH CAVELL | JASPER NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA. 3-BOW VALLEY | BANFF, ALBERTA. 4- IQALUIT | NUNAVUT. 5-NIAGARA FALLS | NIAGARA, ONTARIO. 6-RIDEAU CANAL | OTTAWA, ONTARIO. 7- QUEBEC CITY | QUEBEC. Where is the best place to visit in the […]

Cakes and Candles Along with pointy party hats, the most common birthday tradition is giving the birthday boy or girl a special birthday cake with candles. Friends sing the special birthday song (“Happy Birthday to You”), then the birthday kid tries to blow out all the flames in one breath. How are birthdays usually celebrated? […]

But situated only 508 miles from the North Pole, a military installation named Alert, located at the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world! Is Northern Canada inhabited? The North of Canada consists of three territories: Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. They extend into […]

The Pigeon River forms part of the Canada–United States border between the state of Minnesota and the province of Ontario, west of Lake Superior. What river separates Minnesota from Canada? The Red River of the North flows northward 550 miles from its source in Breckenridge, Minnesota to Lake Winnipeg in Canada, and forms most of […]