..When God created Canadians..
On the sixth day God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said, "Today I am going to create a land called Canada, it will be a land of outstanding natural beauty, it shall have tall majestic mountains full of mountain goats and eagles, beautifully sparkling lakes bountiful with carp and trout, forests full of elk and moose, high cliffs overlooking sandy beaches with an abundance of sea life, and rivers stocked with salmon."
God continued, "I shall make the land rich in oil so to make the inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Canadians, they shall be known as the most friendly people on the earth"
"But Lord" asked Gabriel "don't you think you are being too generous to these Canadians?"
"Not really" replied God "just wait and see the neighbors I am going to give them."
National Anthem
National Emblem
Capital
Land Mass
Climate
Time Zones
Main Natural Resources
Life Expectancy
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O Canada was proclaimed the national anthem on July 1, 1980,
a century after being sung for the first time.
The maple leaf has been associated with Canada since the 1700s.
It has become the country's most important symbol
since the national flag was introduced in 1965. 
Ottawa, in the province of Ontario.
At 9 970 610 km², Canada is the world's second-largest country,
surpassed only by the Russian Federation.
Canada comprises 7% of the world's land mass, and 9% of its fresh water supply.
Of a total of over ten million square kilometres,
over nine million are land and 755 000 fresh water.
There are of course many climatic variations in this huge country,
ranging from the permanently frozen icecaps north of the 70th parallel
to the luxuriant vegetation of British Columbia's west coast.
On the whole, though, Canada has four very distinct seasons,
especially in the regions lying along the U.S. border.
Daytime summer temperatures can rise to +35 °C and higher,
while lows of -35 °C are not uncommon in winter.
More moderate temperatures are the norm in spring and fall.
Canada has six time zones.The easternmost,in Newfoundland,
is three hours and 30 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
The other time zones are the Atlantic, the Eastern, the Central,
the Rocky Mountain and,farthest west, the Pacific, which is eight hours behind GMT. 
The principal natural resources are
natural gas,oil,gold,coal,copper,iron ore,
nickel,potash,uranium and zinc,
along with wood and water. 
Canadians' life expectancy at birth is 74.9 years for males
and 81.2 years for females. This ranks among the world's longest.
