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The Toronto Maple Leafs,
the famous hockey team had
a different name between 1919
and 1922, the Toronto St. Patrick’s
(St. Pats). The team was founded in 1917
in Montreal. They have won the Stanley cup 13 times. The last time they won was in 1967, only 50 years ago!
In 1932, at the age of 32 Dr. Fredrick Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Working with Dr. Charles Best they discovered insulin in 1921. Banting was a doctor, physician, and painter and continues
being the youngest to have been awarded.
Did you know the iconic and omnipresent franchise Tim Hortons opened its first location
In 1994 by law the Canadian Parliament named the national sport by season, naming Hockey as the national winter sport and Lacrosse the national summer
sport.
in Hamilton in 1964 and was founded by Maple Leafs player Tim Horton and Jim Charade. Later Ron Joyce joined
and helped expand the business, and after Hortons death in 1974 in a car accident bought out the company for 1 million dollars. Today the company has over 3000 locations throughout Canada and over 500 in the United States.
In 1957 Walter Cell as a commemoration to the 60th anniversary to the creation of poutine (fries and gravy), created the famous cocktail Bloody Caesar (Vodka
and tomato juice).
Other interesting facts
Calgary, Vancouver, and Montreal have been home the Olympics. Toronto is
still waiting for its chance. Did you know that the gas masks, basketball, paint roller and insulin
are all Canadian inventions!
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