Taken in London during the Vancouver Olympics Gold medal match Canada vs USA
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010World Hockey Junior Hockey Championships
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009I just wanted to say congratulations to team Canada in thier 5-1 win at the world juniors. That makes 5 in a row!
One stat that I like is as follows:
The game was watched in whole or in part by 9.3 million Canadians, or close to 30 per cent of the country’s population.
Canada
Saturday, July 1st, 2000Also see pages on:
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What can you say about the Greatest country in the world? A lot! So here it goes…
Canada’s National Anthem
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for theeO Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
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I know this place is where I am.
No place is better than where I am.
No matter where I go I am.
Proud to be Canadian.
I am, You know I am.
I am Canadian.
I love this country where I am.
This land is where I make my stand.
Y’a pas un cocur Qui est (no other heart is) truer than
The one we call Canadian.
I am, You know I am.
I am Canadian.
Hockey
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Canada’s unofficial National Sport.
Played on ice with 10 players, the object is to place a small black puck into the opponents net. Some of the greatest players that ever played come form Canada including the “Great One”, Wayne Gretzky. |
Trivia

Land Mass: At 9 970 610 km², Canada is the world’s second-largest country, surpassed only by the Russian Federation. Canada comprises 7% of the world’s land mass, and 9% of its fresh water supply.
Capital: Ottawa, in the province of Ontario. Not Toronto.
Provinces and Territories:Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories, each with its own capital city (in brackets):
Alberta (Edmonton);
British Columbia (Victoria);
Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown);
Manitoba (Winnipeg);
New Brunswick (Fredericton);
Nova Scotia (Halifax);
Ontario (Toronto);
Quebec (Quebec City);
Saskatchewan (Regina);
Newfoundland (St. John’s);
Northwest Territories (Yellowknife);
Yukon Territory (Whitehorse);
Nunavut (Iqaluit).
National Anthem:O Canada was proclaimed the national anthem on July 1, 1980, a century after being sung for the first time.
Population:At the time of the June 1996 census, Canada’s population was 28.8 million.
Music
Here are is a list of some Canadian singers (with links if I found them):
Wikapedia has a good articel on Canadian Music
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| Alanis Morissette | You OughtaKnow |
| Arcade Fire | Rebellion (Lies) |
| Ashley McIsaac | Baby did a bad bad thing |
| Avril Lavigne | Complicated, I’m With You, My Happy Ending, Girlfriend |
| Anne Murray | Snowbird, You Needed Me |
| Barenaked Ladies | If I Had $1,000,000, One Week, Pinch Me |
| Bedouin Soundclash | When the Night Feels My Song |
| Bryan Adams | Cuts Like a Knife,Everything I Do, I Do It For You |
| Carolyn Dawn Johnson | Georgia, Complicated |
| Celine Dion | Where Does My Heart Beat Now, My Heart Will Go On |
| Chantal Kreviazuk | Leaving on a Jetplane, Before You, Far Away |
| Colin James | Just Came Back, Mystery to Me |
| Corey Hart | Sunglasses at Night, Boy In The Box, Never Surrender |
| Econoline Crush | Sparkle and Shine, You Don’t Know What It’s Like |
| Glass Tiger | Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone |
| Gordon Lightfoot | Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, If You Could Read My Mind |
| Hawksley Workman | Jealous of Your Cigarette, Smoke Baby |
| I Mother Earth | One More Astronaut, Sumertime in the Void |
| K.D. Lang | Absolute Torch and Twang, Ingenue, Constant Craving |
| Moist | Push, Breathe |
| Neil Young | Heart of Gold, Helpless, Harvest Moon, Long May You Run |
| Nelly Furtado | I’m like a Bird, Maneater, Promiscuous |
| Nickelback | How You Remind Me, Rockstar |
| Our Lady Peace | Superman’s Dead, Clumsy, Life |
| Sarah McLachlan | Into The Fire, I Will Remeber You, Ice Cream |
| Shania Twain | The Woman In Me, Love Gets Me Every Time, Rock This Country! |
| Sloan | The Good In Everyone, Glad To Be Here, Sensory Deprivation |
| Tom Cochrane | Life Is A Highway |
| The Age of Electric | Rainbow Tongue, Motor |
| The Crash Test Dummies | Superman Song, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm |
| The Guess Who | American Woman, These Eyes |
| The Philosopher Kings | Charms, Castles in the Sand |
| The Tragically Hip | New Orleans is Sinking |
| The Rankin Family | Fare Thee Well Love, We Rise Again |
| Treble Charger | American Psycho, Brand New Low |
| Wide Mouth Mason | Why, My Old Self |



