Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Happy Canada Day!

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)
Little known facts about Canada:
  • 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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