Every year Vancouver hosts a charity BICYCLE RIDE whose participants DRESS IN TWEED 8 Montreal’s mayor once asked to borrow the EIFFEL TOWER from Paris for the 1967 World Expo France said no
Residents of Winnipeg Manitoba drink more Slurpees per year than people anywhere else in the world 9
THE FIRST PARKAS WERE MADE BY INUIT WHO SEWED THEM FROM CARIBOU OR SEAL SKIN Quebec produces more than 70 per cent of the world’s supply of maple syrup 10
ICE ROAD TRUCKERS have to closely follow the speed limit sometimes driving only 15 KILOMETRES 9 mph AN HOUR to avoid cracking the ice The The Northwest Territories is Northwest Territories is home to world’s home to world’s LONGEST ICE ROAD LONGEST ICE ROAD ICE SO THICK that it can support a 64-tonne 71-T truck that it can support a 64-tonne 71-T truck 11
