O Canada!

Today is a pretty momentous occasion for me and my family.  We came to Canada 7 years ago and have fallen in love with the country and its people.

My family currently consists of:
1 Scot
1 English
1 American and
1 true Canadian

By lunchtime tomorrow we will all have taken the oath and will become Canadians.  Its a pretty exciting time for us all (plus when I get my passport I can go shopping in Target at Buffalo!)

From that time forward I will have to start being extra nice to people and ending all sentences with the word 'eh!'.

Here are some interesting facts about Canada:

• The Ice Hotel in Quebec, known as Hotel de Glace is created every year using 400 tons of ice and 12,000 tons of snow. It melts away every summer and is recreated every winter.
• Canada is the world's second largest country area wise (including its waters), and fourth largest in land area.
• It also has the longest coastline in the world, about 243,000 kms in length.
• Canada is also the largest producer of a refreshingly sweet dessert wine called Icewine.
• Canada's city of Montreal, sometimes called The City of Churches, is that it has more churches than houses!
• Canada is also home to the world's smallest jail, located in Ontario. It is only 270 square feet. (I've been to it and unsuccessfully tried to lock the kids in it)
• Toronto dwellers hold more university degrees than any other big city in the world.
• it has the fourth lowest population density in the world, with only three people living per square kilometer! Almost half of the population in Canada were born in other countries. 
• Alert, in Nunavut territory, is the northernmost permanent settlement in the world
• Canadians consume more macaroni and cheese than any other nation on earth!
• Canadian James Naismith invented basketball to give his physical education students at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, an indoor team sport to play during the long winters.

(these facts are randomly grabbed from the internet, so I won't stand by any of these claims!)