• Canada is the 2nd largest country on earth. 
• Key Topography
  Great Lakes
  Rocky Mountains
  Canadian Shield 
• Two official languages English and French. 
• Government is an elected Parliament since 1867. 
• The Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest incorporated(1670) joint-stock merchandising company in the English-speaking world. 
• Some of the oldest structures in North America are located in Central and Eastern Canada. 
• Canada has 1/3rd of the planets fresh water. 
• The St. Lawrence Seaway is the world's longest inland waterway. 
• Over 40 species of Dinosaurs were first identified in the Alberta Badlands. 

• Avril Lavigne 
• Pamela Anderson 
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Bat Masterson
• Wayne Gretzky
• Shania Twain
• Nelly Furtado
• Diana Krall 
• Oscar Peterson 
• Keanu Reeves
• Celine Dion
• Alanis Morissette
• Bryan Adams
• Neil Young
• Jim Carrey
• Natasha Henstridge
• Jennifer Tilly
• Sarah McLachlan
• Leonard Cohen 
• Lorne Greene 
• Joni Mitchell 
• Joe Shuster, creator of Superman. 
• Billy Bishop - WWI flying Ace. 
• Mike Myers
• Alex Trebeck (Jeopardy)

• Snowmobile invented by Joseph-Armand Bombardier in 1922. 
• Goalie mask - invented by Jaques Plante in 1960. 
• Basketball - invented by James Naismith in 1891. 
• The National Hockey Leagues Stanley Cup Trophy is the oldest professionally competed athletic prize - first awarded in 1894. 
• Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. 
• Banting invented the process for insulin in 1922. 
• The first jetliner was designed by James Floyd in 1949. 
• Music synthesizer was invented by Hugh Le Caine in 1945. 
• Reginald A. Fessenden patented the first television system in 1927. 
• 1st Dinosaur skull found on Earth. A T-Rex skull was found in the Alberta Badlands in 1884 by Joseph Tyrrell. 

Resort Towns
Banff, Alberta
Jasper, Alberta
Whistler, B.C.
Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
Bromont, Quebec