Category: Canada

This is the number of the apartment that you live in. This could also be referred to as unit, suite, or building unit number. How do you write an apartment number in Canada? Write in uppercase letters (also known as block letters). Put information such as title or floor above the street address. Put a […]

The Gift of Tulips became a yearly tradition. Every year, the Dutch Royal Family and the people of the Netherlands each send 10,000 bulbs to Ottawa. What did the Netherlands give Canada? tulip bulbsFollowing the end of the Second World War in 1945, when Canada had liberated the Netherlands, Princess Juliana presented Canada with 100,000 […]

5.6 kilometres (3 nautical miles) from any airport listed as Certified (“Cert”) in the Canada Flight Supplement. 1.9 kilometres (1 nautical mile) from heliports listed as Certified (“Cert”) in the Canada Flight Supplement. What class airspace can drones fly in? In general, you can only fly your drone in uncontrolled airspace below 400 feet above […]

Funding. The Canadian federal Government announced it would be spending an estimated half-billion dollars on 150th-anniversary events and projects. $300-million was to be spent by Canadian regional development agencies through a Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program. What does Canada 150 celebrate? During Canada 150, the 150th anniversary of our Confederation, Canadians came together and celebrated […]

British Columbia As part of an effort to recognize the Aboriginal population of the region that lived there prior to colonialization, Vancouver’s celebrations of the sesquicentennial were branded as Canada 150+ with the slogan “Moving Forward Together”. What does Canada 150 represent? Canada 150 typeface The typeface, Canada 150, was created by Canadian typeface designer […]

Zip is one of the leading ‘buy now pay later’ services across a number of countries including Australia, New Zealand, the United States (formerly QuadPay), Canada and the United Kingdom. Does Zip work in Canada? Shop online at any Canadian or US retailer that offers Zip at Checkout. Does Zip work internationally? Zip has a […]

July 1, 1927, marks the biggest celebration of Confederation in Canada’s history, and the events organized by Ottawa are fully bilingual. What happened in 1927 in Canada? August 20 – John Duncan MacLean becomes premier of British Columbia. September 21 – Ten Canadian Pacific Railway cars carrying a valuable cargo of silk goes off the […]

This is the number of the apartment that you live in. This could also be referred to as unit, suite, or building unit number. Provide this information if Canada Post needs it to deliver your mail. What is unit number in Canada address? A Unit Number is placed before the civic number with a hyphen […]

In Canada, Statistics Canada counts the number of private dwellings in the country at each census, in which case they are then known as “dwelling units” and can refer equally to a house or an apartment. In everyday Canadian English “unit” is used an umbrella term for apartments and condominiums. What is unit type for […]

1 April 1971. The introduction of the postal code began with a test in Ottawa on 1 April 1971. When did postcodes become a thing? The first postcodes were introduced on a trial basis in Norwich in 1959 with the first three characters of the code (‘NOR’) representing the name of the city, and the […]