Canada Facts, #45

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-Because (for the longest time ever) the Rough Riders were Saskatchewan's only professional sport team, we tend to be serious about football, so there is an official Rough Rider song:

Green is the colour, football is the game, we're all together, and winning is our aim. So cheer us on through the sun and the rain (and sometimes snow), Saskatchewan Rough Riders is our name!

-When Europeans first came to Canada, they brought death with them in the form of disease. 90-93% of Canada's aboriginal population died from the foreign diseases the Europeans brought with them, because their immune systems didn't have any defences against them.

-Crabapple trees are the only apple trees native to Canada.

-Labrador is the pat of Newfoundland and Labrador that is attached to the main land. Newfoundland is the island part of the province.

-Vikings were the first European settlers to Canada, then 500 years later the French and then the English.

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