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Alberta Highway 30. Alberta Provincial Highway No. 30, commonly referred to as Highway 30, was a 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) long north–south highway in central Alberta, Canada that existed between the 1950s and mid-1980s, connecting the Yellowhead Highway ( Highway 16) with the Summer Village of Kapasiwin. [1]
The history of Ottawa, capital of Canada, [ 1] was shaped by events such as the construction of the Rideau Canal, the lumber industry, the choice of Ottawa as the location of Canada's capital, as well as American and European influences and interactions. By 1914, Ottawa's population had surpassed 100,000 and today it is the capital of a G7 ...
While Canada's ten provinces and three territories exhibit high per capita GDPs, there is wide variation among them. Ontario, the country's most populous province, is a major manufacturing and trade hub with extensive linkages to the northeastern and midwestern United States. The economies of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador and ...
May 31 – North Bay, Ontario, was struck by two weak tornadoes. June 23 – a weak tornado touched down in Ottawa between Kanata and Barrhaven.; July 28 – severe thunderstorms over Northern Ontario produced a tornado over Halfway Lake Provincial Park (70 km (43 mi) north of Sudbury) where 800 people were camping at the time, fallen trees injure 4 campers.
Of the average 60 confirmed tornadoes each year, Alberta and Saskatchewan both average between 14 and 18 tornadoes per season, followed by Manitoba and Ontario with normally between 8 and 14 tornadoes per season. Quebec is another recognized tornado-prone zone averaging between 4 and 8 tornadoes each year.
Life expectancy in Canada in 2015-2017, 3-year average, by health regions. [4] [a] Data source: Statistics Canada. [1] [3] There are no data for Yukon for given periods. In 2014-2016 overall life expectancy in this territory was 78.68 years (75.92 for male and 81.47 for female).
Canadian provincial and territorial postal abbreviations are used by Canada Post in a code system consisting of two capital letters, to represent the 13 provinces and territories on addressed mail. These abbreviations allow automated sorting . ISO 3166-2:CA identifiers' second elements are all the same as these; ISO adopted the existing Canada ...
The view of Moraine Lake in Banff National Park from the top of the moraine rockpile is one of the most photographed locations in all of Canada. [5] That view of the mountains behind the lake in Valley of the Ten Peaks is known as the Twenty-Dollar View , as Moraine Lake is featured on the backs of the 1969 and 1979 issues of the Canadian $20 note.