Portal:Canada/Did You Know/8

...that John Rut sent the first known letter from North America and that it was from St. John's, Newfoundland on August 3, 1527?
... that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography?
...that Canada's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?
...that David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
... that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200 million of funding from the United States federal government?