Portal:Canada/Did You Know/23


 * ...that the architecture of Ottawa is dominated by its role as the national capital of Canada?
 * ... that Samuel Jarvis was acquitted of manslaughter after winning Toronto's last duel on July 12, 1817, and married the daughter of the presiding judge the following year?
 * ... that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during an Iroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants of Calumet Island?
 * ...that Canadian microbiologist John Dick was the first to isolate and identify a cancer stem cell?
 * ... that the biography of a Douglas-fir, Tree: A Life Story, was inspired by a single tree at David Suzuki's home?