Portal:Canada/Did You Know/45


 * ...that Piffles Taylor quarterbacked the Regina Roughriders to the Western Canada rugby championship in 1919 after losing an eye in World War I?
 * ... that the source of the bomb that brought down Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 near 100 Mile House, British Columbia in 1965, taking the lives of all 52 aboard, was never determined?
 * ...that Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly American war veteran, killed three tourists in Central Station in Montreal, Canada hoping to intimidate Pope John Paul II prior to his 1984 visit to Canada?
 * ...that the full force of The Great Depression in Canada lasted until World War II in parts of the country, particularly in Western Canada?
 * ...that Herschel Island in Canada is named for scientist John Herschel?