Portal:Canada/Did You Know/39
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- ... that the St'at'imcets language, an endangered language of British Columbia, is like Semitic languages in that it also has pharyngeal consonants?
- ...that in the Ukrainian Canadian internment of 1914 to 1920, about five thousand Ukrainian immigrants from Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada?
- ...that Gustavus Blin Wright, a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada, built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?
- ...that former Manitoba MLA John Moore Robinson established the soft fruit industry in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in the late 1800s, along with the region's first corporate water management system to irrigate it?
- ...that religion in Canada is dominated by the Roman Catholic Church, the United Church of Canada and the Anglican Communion?