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<\/a><\/p>\nOh Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n July 1 2009 will be the 142 year of confederation in Canada<\/p>\n July 1 1867 would have been a Monday<\/p>\n There were originally only 4 provinces in Canada. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Upper Canada (Quebec) and Lower Canada (Ontario)<\/p>\n The original 4 provinces had an area of 419,345 square miles which is about 1,086,098 square kilometers.<\/p>\n Canada officially adopted the metric system in 1970. And in 1971 Metric Commision Canada was appointed by the government to plan and manage all conversions in daily life from imperial to the metric system.<\/p>\n The current area of Canada is 9,093,507 square kilometers<\/p>\n The population of Canada would have been approximately 3,463,000 that is just above 1\/10 of Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current population 33,212,696<\/p>\n Basketball was invented in Canada by James Naismith, a physical education instructor, in 1891. There were no official rules for the game until 1892.<\/p>\n Toque is derived from the French meaning “Cap that knocked”. That was usually because it had long droopy ends that knocked against the neck or shoulders. This is also clost to the Italian word tocca<\/em> that simply means “cap”.<\/p>\n On April 1 1999 Nunavut became Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest territory.<\/p>\n Nunavut\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s area makes up 1\/5 of Canada but with only 29,000 people it makes up less that 1% of the population<\/p>\n Canada has hosted the Olympics only twice, 1976 in Montreal and 1988 in Calgary. It will be hosting it for the third time in Vancouver 2010.<\/p>\n Canada is the second largest country in the world.<\/p>\n Canada has 2 official languages, English and French. English is spoken by about 59.3% or the population and French by about 23.2%. The other 17.5% speak other languages. Much of the population is at least bilingual.<\/p>\n So there you go some facts about Canada. Hope you had a great Canada Day.<\/p>\n