Canada Weird, Strange & True

Lisa Wojna takes you deep inside the weirdest and most peculiar aspects of our country:

• Yes, there is a lighthouse in Saskatchewan!! The climb is 153 steps to the top 

• The Diefenbunker is a relic of the Cold War that was built outside Ottawa for essential government and military personnel in the event of a nuclear attack; it is now a museum

 • A series of banknotes produced by the Bank of Canada in 1957 has the image of a grinning demon camouflaged in Queen Elizabeth’s hair

• At least 15 cryptid lake creatures are said to swim this country’s waters; the best known is Lake Okanagan’s Ogopogo

• The Old Sow tidal whirlpool in Passamaquoddy Bay is the largest in the Western Hemisphere at 75 metres in diameter with a current speed of 28 kilometres per hour

• The largest beaver dam in the world is 850 metres wide and is located in a remote corner of Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta 

• Every winter, the Hôtel de Glace in Québec City is sculpted from 500 tonnes of ice and 15,000 tonnes of snow. 

Now, that’s just weird!

And hundreds more strange things about this country in Canada Weird, Strange and True!