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Did you know that...
British forces captured Quebec City twice; the first time they gave it back. A plot to assassinate Champlain and turn Canada over to Spain was thwarted in 1608. In 1812 a British general triggered a hot-war by attacking Fort Detroit during a negotiated truce. The wife of a Canadian prime minister created a popular fad riding through the Rockies belted to a chair strapped on the steam locomotive's cow-catcher. A pig incident in B.C. almost caused a war. At the end of World War II Canada's 378 vessel navy was the third largest fleet at sea, while Canada's air force was the fourth largest in the world. Ninety-two Canadians have been awarded the Victoria Cross. On a per capita basis Canada is one of the greatest contributors to UN peacekeeping missions. The Order of Good Cheer is a four hundred year old Canadian tradition.
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