GOOD TO KNOW
• Canada is a member of the Commonwealth, with Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state.
• In terms of population, Canada’s capital, Ottawa, is only the country’s fourth-largest city, behind Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
• Around 1.67 million people in Canada identify as “Aboriginal”.
• Canada officially has three groups of indigenous peoples: First Nations, Métis and Inuit. They all have distinct histories, languages, cultures and beliefs.
• Canada has around 630 First Nations communities, made up of 50 official Nations, speaking around 70 languages. Indigenous people are the fastest-growing population in the country; they are also the youngest, with 44 per cent under the age of 25 in 2016.
• With the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Canada is a member of the so-called Five Eyes, an Englishspeaking group of nations that shares intelligence. Measuring 9,985,000 square kilometres, Canada is the second-largest country in the world after Russia.
• Its coastline measures 243,042 kilometres (including offshore islands), the longest in the world.
• Baffin Island, in Nunavut, is the world’s fifth-biggest island, at 507,451 square kilometres.
• At 8,890 kilometres, Canada’s border with the US is the longest border between two countries in the world.
• Mount Logan in southwestern Yukon is Canada’s highest mountain, at 5,959 metres.
• Canada is home to the world’s most freshwater, with its 891,163 square kilometres ahead of the US’S 664,709 square kilometres.