Beautiful Canada

12/13/2024

The world's largest dinosaur is located in Drumheller, Alberta and is the city's main attraction.

The height of the steel and fiberglass statue reaches 25 meters - this is four times higher than the average Tyrannosaurus rex. And in the mouth of the dinosaur there is an observation deck overlooking the city and the surrounding area, to which a staircase of 106 steps leads

12/06/2024

We have our own Paris

In Ontario there is a city called Paris, named after the gypsum mined on its territory. This gypsum was used to make “plaster of Paris,” a building material named after the capital of France. The city is located at the confluence of the Grand and Knight rivers, where one of the oldest railway bridges still in operation in the country is located. Paris is known as Canada's most beautiful small city due to its architecture and nature

11/11/2024

🤓 It turns out that the tallest tin soldier in the world stands in New Westminster, British Columbia

Its height is 9.75 meters. The statue depicts a sergeant major of the Royal Engineers who laid the foundations of the city and maintained order from 1859–1863.

And in the soldier’s heart is a time capsule that will be opened in 2025.

10/26/2024

07/25/2024

🎊 In Sudbury, Ontario, they celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Big Nickel - the largest coin in the world

Created in 1964 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the discovery of nickel as an element, this enlarged replica of the Canadian nickel weighs 13,000 kg. On one side of the coin there is an image of King George VI, on the other there is a stylized nickel factory with one large chimney. This symbol recognizes Sudbury's contribution to the Canadian economy through nickel mining

07/19/2024

SNOLAB is a world-class scientific laboratory located at a depth of just over 2 kilometers near the city of Sudbury in a former nickel mine. The dimensions of the laboratory are impressive: the area of ​​underground premises is 5000 m2, and 3100 m2 of auxiliary structures are located on the surface. The main areas of scientific activity of SNOLAB are the study of the physics of subatomic particles, in particular nitrino, and the properties of dark matter, which makes up 70% of our Universe. In terms of the purity of the experiments carried out in the laboratory and the depth of its location, SNOLAB is second only to the younger Chinese laboratory CJPL, located at a depth of 2.4 kilometers.

07/05/2024

🇨🇦 Food products, dishes that have been invented in Canada over the past 160 years

07/03/2024

Protein that saves you from death: On July 27, 1921, Canadian physiologist Frederick Banting first isolated insulin. In January 1922, an unknown young Canadian scientist, Frederick Banting, for the first time in history, saved the life of a diabetic boy by injecting him with insulin. For many centuries, people did not know a remedy to combat this disease, and the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus left the patient no hope. Banting's discovery, for which he and John MacLeod were awarded the Nobel Prize, saved the lives of millions. And although diabetes mellitus is still incurable, thanks to insulin, people have learned to keep this disease under control.

07/01/2024

05/02/2024

The famous club-footed hero Winnie the Pooh is of Canadian origin in a sense. The fact is that the prototype of the teddy bear was a real bear, or rather a she-bear. In 1914, a lieutenant in the Canadian army, before being sent to the front in Europe, bought a black bear cub from a hunter and secretly took it out of the country. Her name was Winnipeg, Winnie for short. In 1915, the lieutenant went to fight in France, so he left the bear in the London Zoo. Christopher Robin, the son of writer Alan Milne, saw her there and began to call his plush friend the same.

04/23/2024

The road markings we see on most roads around the world today were first introduced in Canada

The idea of ​​using it to increase safety was proposed by an engineer from Ontario, John D. Millar. The first lines were drawn in 1930 on the highway between Ontario and Quebec.

In the photo, people gather around a car accident in Toronto in 1929, before the appearance of road markings.

01/23/2024

Vaudreuil-Dorion

01/22/2024

Kemptville

01/21/2024

Montebello

01/20/2024

Etobicoke

01/19/2024

Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park

01/18/2024

Orillia