7 Fun Facts About Canadian Life
Whether you're planning on applying for a Canada visa and moving to the country permanently or are simply interested in the country and Canadian life in general, the following 7 points are all fun, interesting and entirely true facts about life in Canada.
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7 Fun Facts About Canadian Life
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Whether you’re planning on applying for a Canada visa and moving to the country permanently or are simply interested in the country and Canadian life in general, the following 7 points are all fun, interesting and entirely true facts about life in Canada.
1. On 12 May 1994, the Canadian government produced a bill that gave details on the country’s national sports. Titled the National Sports of Canada Act, it explains that ice hockey is the country’s national winter sport and lacrosse is the country’s national summer sport.
2. As popular as basketball may be in America and as much as you may believe its roots lay in the USA, the game is actually a Canadian one.
Devised by James Naismith, a Canadian PE instructor who was working at Springfield College in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century, he was asked to create a game that could be played indoors throughout the summer months and created basketball from a developed idea of his favourite childhood game, duck on a rock, where the aim was to knock a stone from a larger one with a similar sized stone.
3. Aside from developing basketball, James Naismith played an inaugural role in the invention of several other popular items, most notably the American football helmet.
4. The country is one of the largest in the world, but conversely one of the least densely populated. With an area that covers 3,854,085 square, it is second only in size to Russia (which covers 6,601,668 square miles), but with a population density of just 8.3 people in every square mile of land (due to an estimated population of 34,218,000 people), Canada is 228th out of 239 countries in terms of the most densely populated countries in the world.
5. If all of your relatives live in Canada and you’re the only person from your immediate family left in the UK, Canada will allow you to apply for a specialist Canada visa which means you can move to live with family.
6. According to the Living In Canada website, the average price of a house in the country as a whole in January 2010 was 329,000 Canadian dollars, which is approximately 201,800 pounds. Working out at just over 20,000 pounds cheaper than the average house price in England (the BBC reported on 28 May 2010 that the average price of a house in England was 224,064 pounds), the real startling differences come when looking at the major cities.
In Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, the average price of a house is 324,000 Canadian dollars, equating to around 198,800 pound. In the capital city of England, however, the average house price is a staggering 406,608 pounds – that means over twice as much money is required to live in London than in Ottawa.
7. Canada is divided into 13 different sections, which are 10 provinces and 3 territories. The difference between the two is that whereas provinces take their authority from the official Constitution Act of 1867, territories take their authority from the federal government.
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