Portal:Canada/Did You Know/46


 * ... the 1839 Report on the Affairs of British North America stated in  that Canada consisted of "two nations warring in the bosom of a single state?"
 * ...that the dismissive line about Canada being "a few acres of snow," commonly attributed to Voltaire is, in fact, a misquotation?
 * ..that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson once physically attacked Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson over Canada's Vietnam War policy?
 * ...that the University of British Columbia Library (pictured) holds the largest collection of Asian-language materials in North America?
 * ...that Benjamin Pearse, later an influential provincial politician in British Columbia, came to Vancouver Island working for Hudson's Bay Company?