101 Facts about Canada

A country everyone thinks they know the same things about.

Maple syrup, hockey, bears, snow. The picture is accurate and about fifty years old. Canada has the world's longest coastline, and depending on the source it differs by 25,000 miles. In the Bay of Fundy the sea rises 52 feet twice a day. In Wood Buffalo National Park lies a beaver dam 2,790 feet long, found by satellite in 2007 and first reached on foot in 2014. And in 2012, 2,700 metric tons of maple syrup vanished from a warehouse in Quebec.

101 facts. Each one on its own page.
An entry takes two minutes and stands on its own. Arranged in six chapters:

• Geography & Nature - tides, the Arctic, wildfires, polar bears
• History & Archaeology - Norse, Franklin, Riel, Halifax
• People, Language & Cities - Quebec, bilingualism, Toronto
• First Nations, Inuit & Métis - Nunavut, languages, reckoning
• Food & Drink - maple syrup, poutine, bagels, country food
• Economy, Records & Everyday Life - oil sands, potash, inventions

The dark chapters are here too.
139 residential schools, more than 150,000 children, more than 4,100 recorded deaths. Told plainly and with verified figures. A country that documents its own crimes more thoroughly than most states do.

Checked, not copied.
Where sources disagree, the text gives the range rather than the prettier number. Where a familiar claim is wrong, the correction stands beside it: Canada does not have more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Yonge Street was never the longest street on earth either, and the eleven points on the maple leaf mean nothing at all.

With a country profile, a timeline, a glossary, and an index for looking things up.

Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.