Portal:Canada/Did You Know/47

...that leading Canadian human rights activist Kalmen Kaplansky died in 1997 on International Human Rights Day?
...that Canadian biochemist Archibald Macallum used measurements of ionic concentrations in blood sera to argue for the ancient marine origin of all vertebrates?
...that Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada were persecuted in the early to mid-20th century, and that their religion was banned during World War II under the War Measures Act as a result of their refusal to serve in the military?
...that Jeremy Dalton was suspended, and later expelled, from the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus in the provincial legislature?
...that Canada's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?