Portal:Canada/Did You Know/36

...that the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada was 1965's Hope Slide?
...that for fifty years the Red River Trails were used by Red River ox carts as the principal means of transportation between modern-day Winnipeg, Manitoba and St Paul, Minnesota?
....that former Manitoba MLA John Moore Robinson established the soft fruit industry in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in the late 1800s, along with the region's first corporate water management system to irrigate it?
...that when the first Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island was elected, there were only five qualified voters in the three-member district of Victoria?
...that Robert Burnaby is the namesake of at least eleven places in British Columbia, including a city, a lake, and a hill?