Portal:Canada/Did You Know/8


 * ...that John Rut sent the first known letter from North America and that it was from St. John's, Newfoundland on August 3, 1527?
 * ... that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography?
 * ...that Canada's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?
 * ...that David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
 * ... that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200 million of funding from the United States federal government?