Did You Know??
The world's largest piggy bank is located at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa, On. It is 13 feet tall and 18 feet long.
Longest Coastline - Canada's coastline is the world's longest at 243,792 km or 151,485 miles (including the coastline of the country's 52,455 islands). Stretched out as a continuous line, it would circle the equator more than 6 times (25% of the world's coastline)
Largest freshwater system in the world - Canada's 2 million lakes and rivers cover 7.6% of our landmass or 755,000 square km.
The largest Sitka Spruce tree in the world (Canada's tallest tree) is in the Carmanah Valley (BC). It is 95 metres tall. The world's largest known red cedar tree is at Cheewaht lake, Pacific Rim National Park. It is 59.2 metres tall and 18.98 metres in circumference.
Sparwood (BC) has the largest dump truck in the world at 350 tonnes. It was used for coal mining.
World's largest Peogy is in Glendon, Alberta.
The largest operating Cuckoo clock in the world is in Kimberly (BC).
The tallest totem pole in the world is in Alert Bay (BC). It stands 52.7 metres tall.
Drumheller (AB) is home to the world's largest model (T-Rex) dinosaur. It is 24.5 metres high and has an internal stairway to the view port in the open mouth.
One of the narrowest streets in the world (it is 5 feet wide) is Fan Tan Alley in Victoria (BC). It dates back to the 1800's when Chinatown was first established. Victoria's Chinatown is also the third largest in North America and one of the oldest.
Not be least ... I live in BC short for British Columbia ... lol. I had to stick that in.