Happy birthday Canada! I hope I look this good when I'm 141.Canadian music trivia: Here are some songs that were made (even more) famous covered by other artists, where the original artist was Canadian:
- Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley (originally by Leonard Cohen)
- American Woman by Lenny Kravitz (originally by The Guess Who)
- This Flight Tonight by Nazareth (originally by Joni Mitchell)
- I Go Blind by Hootie and the Blowfish (originally by 5440)
- Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf (quasi-Canadian) (originally by Mars Bonfire)
- Hold On by Santana (originally by Ian Thomas)
- The word Canada is an anglicized version of a Huron-Iroquois word Kanata, which means "village" or "settlement". There is a city in Ontario named Kanata.
- The official national sport of Canada isn't hockey - it's lacrosse.
- Jim Carrey sent a resume to the Carol Burnett show when he was 10.
- Canada is the only foreign country permitted to have an embassy on Pennsylvania Ave. in the US.
- Quebec City turned 400 this year.
- Little Manitou Lake, in Saskatchewan, is a saltwater lake that is impossible to sink in.
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