The Big Book of Canadian Trivia by Mark Kearney & Ray Randy

Author:Mark Kearney & Ray, Randy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REF023000, book
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2009-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Odds and Sods: From Eh to Zed

SNAPSHOT

Suicides in Canada

1950: 1,067

1970: 2,413

1990: 3,379

1995: 3,970

2004: 3,613

TRIVIA HODGEPODGE

• On average, Canadian households spend $257 a year on gaming, which includes the purchase of lottery tickets, casino gambling, and playing games of chance on video lottery terminals. Quebec leads the way, spending an average of $267 per family.

• The smallest, oldest jail in North America is found in Rodney, Ontario, southwest of London. Built in 1890 and now a tourist attraction, the 24.3-square-metre jail had two cells. Others have challenged Rodney’s claim, but the town has refuted them.

• Canada’s first grain elevator, a round structure, was built in Niverville, Manitoba, in 1879. It was the Ogilvie flour company that built the first of the rectangular, pitch-roofed grain elevators that became a common sight in communities across the Prairies. That elevator was built in Gretna, Manitoba, in 1881.

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