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Why I Love Canada and Will Protect Canadian Territorial Heritage … 15 Proud Reasons
“O Canada our home and native land
True patriot love in all of us command…”
- Canada is the second-largest country in the world by land mass. It has the longest coastline in the world, with over 243,000 kilometers of shoreline.
- Canada has ten provinces and three territories with 41 million people of varying population densities from sparsely populated rural areas to metropolitan areas like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
3. Canada has more lakes than any other country, with over 2 million lakes covering about 8% of its land area. It is home to the world’s largest freshwater island, Manitoulin Island, located in Lake Huron. We are blessed with a vast array of wildlife, including bears, moose, wolves, polar bears and beavers.
4. The country’s name comes from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word “Kanata,” meaning “village” or “settlement.” Colonial settlement was established in Upper and Lower Canada in the 1700’s.
5. Canada is characterized by a wide range of both meteorologic and geological regions like the world’s oldest known rock, the Acasta Gneiss, which is approximately 4.01 billion years old. The highest tides occur in the Bay of Funday in New Brunswick.
