Archive: Ontario Cool Facts

Giant Spider Ottawa © Lucy Izon

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Giant Spider resides in Ottawa

Point Pelee Butterflies © Lucy Izon

On a major migration route - 10,000 monarch butterflies have landed on Point Pelee in a single day

St Thomas Church Moose Factory by Hjvannes

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During WWI young men of Moose Factory walked almost 300 km to Cochrane to enlist - there were no roads or rail service

Algonquin Park Moose

Algonquin Park is One of the Best Places in the World to View Moose

Shad Fly T-shirt

Shad Flies - the species has been around for more than 300 million years!

World’s oldest living sugar maple tree in Peterborough - it’s at least 330 years old!

Here’s where it all started for the ‘Mac’ - the birthplace of the original McIntosh Apple was Dundela Ontario

James Bond

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Camp X - It’s where Ian Fleming trained to be a spy during WWII, then he went on to create James Bond 007

Yonge St Toronto © Lucy Izon

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At 1,896 km, Guinness recognized Yonge St as the Longest Street in the World

During WW II a single room in Ottawa was ceded to the Netherlands for Royal Birth