About Your Province (9)

Oct 22, 2016 3:00 PM CST About Your Province
Tell us where your from and list a few things unique about your province.

I am from Newfoundland and Newfoundland is noted for:

1. Fiber optic cable was first developed at Memorial university in St. John's NL.

2. Newfoundland is the youngest province of Canada having joined confederation in 1949.

3. Newfoundland has the highest gun ownership of all Canada but also has some of the lowest gun violence rates of all Canada.
Oct 25, 2016 9:09 AM CST About Your Province
Prairriescooner
PrairriescoonerPrairriescoonerBridge City, Saskatchewan Canada4 Threads 1 Polls 28 Posts
Hello, I am from Saskatchewan which is noted for:
1) Home to Fort Walsh, which served as headquarters for the North-West Mounted Police (later the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) from 1878 to 1892.
2)The first automated teller machine in Canada was developed by Saskatchewan credit unions in 1977
3)The federal riding of Prince Albert is the only constituency in Canada to have had three prime ministers represent it: Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1896), William Lyon Mackenzie King (1926-1945) and John Diefenbaker (1957-1963)
There are many more interesting thins about Saskatchewan... The Riders LOL
Oct 28, 2016 8:08 PM CST About Your Province
Lilith10
Lilith10Lilith10unknown, Alberta Canada25 Threads 2,078 Posts
Im from Prince Edward Island grin

We are noted for seafood and the Red soil is excellent in nitrogen.
Good for gardening!wine

Also noted because we are the smallest province in Canada.

Its changed alot over the years though but still an awesome place to visit...in the summer..august is a good month.

Winters are terrible and tons of snow!

We are a friendly group but surely not stupid head banger grin canada
Oct 31, 2016 12:30 PM CST About Your Province
Lilith10
Lilith10Lilith10unknown, Alberta Canada25 Threads 2,078 Posts
Oh and also.........

The Confederation of Canada began in P.E.I. applause

teddybear
Oct 31, 2016 8:35 PM CST About Your Province
The first wireless signal ever received on signal hill in St. John's. The signal was sent from Poldhu in Cornwall, England on Dec 12th, 1901.

Marble mountain in Corner brook has the best skiing east of the rocky mountains.

Newfoundland and Labrador is actually the same province, though we have our own unique identity's.
Nov 2, 2016 12:46 PM CST About Your Province
Lilith10
Lilith10Lilith10unknown, Alberta Canada25 Threads 2,078 Posts
Lilith10: Oh and also.........

The Confederation of Canada began in P.E.I.



And ....."Anne of Green Gables" is on the Island..

The Confederation Bridge was built to the mainland..applause

........altho going over it, you cant see over the top laugh

So its just one long boring ride uh oh laugh

Better off to fly over...then you can see the entire island.


More to come.........grin wine
Nov 2, 2016 12:48 PM CST About Your Province
Lilith10
Lilith10Lilith10unknown, Alberta Canada25 Threads 2,078 Posts
The ship that used to run back and forth was called the "Abegweit"

My uncle used to work on it, ...I used to get free rides for the day..grin heart wings

Got seasick few times..doh
Nov 11, 2016 9:16 AM CST About Your Province
Prairriescooner
PrairriescoonerPrairriescoonerBridge City, Saskatchewan Canada4 Threads 1 Polls 28 Posts
PEI has lots to be proud of that's for sure. applause
Nov 11, 2016 5:06 PM CST About Your Province
matureduchess
matureduchessmatureduchessTreherne, Manitoba Canada4 Threads 1 Polls 29 Posts
I was born in Manitoba 1958 and I am 5th generation Canadian, my ancestors were settlers. I still reside in Manitoba.....

Manitoba, Province of Canada since 1870. Manitoba means “where the spirit lives” in the languages of the province’s Indigenous people.

Political Leader
Premier Brian Pallister

Area
649,947 square km/250,946 square miles (larger than Japan and twice the size of the United Kingdom)

Total Population
1,293,400

Capital City
Winnipeg (population 793,400)
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