Bizarre Canada: Wonderfully Weird & Hilarious

By Joanna Emery

Canada is rife with the weird, wacky and off-the-wall from sea to shining sea: * Besides ''Canada, '' a slew of strange names were seriously considered prior to Confederation -- New Britannia, Laurentia, Ursalia, Vesporia, Cabotia, Niagarentia -- but the most bizarre of all, Efisga * The outspoken Hockey Night in Canada commentator earned the nickname ''Hot Lips Don Cherry'' when he kissed NHLer Doug Gilmour during the playoffs * When Alberta's first provincial legislature needed an official mace in a hurry, they made one out of plumbing pipe, shaving mug handles and a toilet tank float, and then painted the whole thing gold * In 1903, car licence plates in Ontario were made of patent leather * Each year, the Pumpkin Festival in Windsor-Hants, Nova Scotia, includes a weigh-off and a Pumpkin Regatta, where dozens of pumpkin boats compete in a 500-metre race * Canadian snow apparently is very cool in Puerto Rico: the white stuff has been shipped 3200 miles south on three separate occasions over the past decade and was kept frosty in large refrigerated containers. * You'll find these and many more strange and wonderful tales between the covers of BIZARRE CANADA

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1926700244
• ISBN13: 9781926700243
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Blue Bike Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"