Every seven minutes in Canada, a life is taken by heart disease or stroke.
This February, more than 70,000 volunteers will canvass door-to-door across the country to help change this statistic. Join us by volunteering in your neighborhood this February. Here’s how:
Black History Month, also known as African-American History Month in America, is an annual observance in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for remembrance of important people and events in the history of the, which was unanimously approved. African diaspora.
Family Literacy Day is a national awareness initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999 and held annually on January 27 to raise awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family.
-Three of Canada’s islands make the top ten for size in the world – Baffin, Ellesmere and Victoria.
-Nunavut takes up one fifth of Canada’s total land area.
-The Royal Montreal Golf Club, founded in 1873, is the oldest golf club in North America.
-The first chuck wagon race held at the Calgary Stampede occurred in 1923. Purses and prizes totalled $275.
– Newfoundland didn’t become a province until 1949.
-It wasn’t until 1610 that Henry Hudson sailed through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay.
-Its birth flower is the violet and the common primrose.