Now You Know Canada: 150 Years of Fascinating Facts

Now You Know Canada: 150 Years of Fascinating Facts
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He has appeared in more than 60 films and television features, including X-Men, Police Academy, Lonesome Dove, and Against the Ropes, and shared screen time with Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Burt Reynolds, Holly Hunter, Eric McCormack, Gary Oldman, and a myriad of others. . About the Author Doug Lennox was an internationally acclaimed broadcaster, a veteran character actor, a commercial voice artist, and a bestselling author
A National Bestseller! A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday. Just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and everything in between. In these pages, you’ll learn the answers to questions like: Where did the word Canuck come from?How did an aristocratic French girl become a Canadian Robinson Crusoe? What famous explorer played hockey in the Arctic? Who was the first black woman elected to Canada’s Parliament? What unlikely team beat Canada for the gold medal for hockey in the 1936 Winter Olympics?How did the Halifax Explosion occur?
"Now I know Canada a lot better, eh?" according to The booktrail. This is just the fun book you would hope to read to find out more about a country. Lots of questions you might not have thought of before but once you know the answers you’ll wonder how you never thought to ask.I bought books similar to this when living there as I love to get underneath the skin of a count. Now I know more about Canada (and Wolverine, Winnie the Pooh) Miss Honeybug Indeed fascinating facts. "Now You Know Canada: 150 Years of Fascinating Facts" is like a tray with all kinds of tapas: small digestible bits of general knowledge about Canada that you can pick in no particular order and read all at once or just a couple at a time. The book contains several categories and the in. "Now You Know Canada" according to Kristine Fisher. Now You Know Canada by Doug Lennox is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late May.Even though it's a resource of Canada's history, important people, tragic and triumphant events, geography, and sports, it deals all in a Q&A format, but with questions that are out of my intellectual scope (in that I wouldn't k
Doug Lennox was an internationally acclaimed broadcaster, a veteran character actor, a commercial voice artist, and a bestselling author. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television features, including X-Men, Police Academy, Lonesome Dove, and Against the Ropes, and shared screen time with Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Burt Reynolds, Holly Hunter, Eric McCormack, Gary Oldman, and a myriad of oth