Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world. It has 31 lakes covering more than 1,300 square kilometres (500 square miles) in area. The largest among these lakes are Great Bear, Great Slave, Dubawnt and Baker. St. Lawrence, Ottawa and Saguenay are some of the great rivers of Canada.
Montreal is an island city on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada. The city was first named by European settlers as Ville Marie. However, the city is now named after one of the famous geographical features of the island, a hill consisting of three peaks named Mount Royal. It is situated at a height of …
Toronto, Canada, was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system. In 1963, the traffic signals in city were computerized. Today Toronto has around 2,300 sets of traffic signals, all managed by a centralized control system.
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American inventor famous for the invention of the telephone. He died on August 2, 1922. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried, millions of phones in America and Canada went dead for one minute as a mark of respect for the inventor.
