Interesting Living!

• Canada is sparsely populated and 9/10 people live close to the US Border
• 81% of the Canadian population lives in cites
• 3 of the Canadian Islands are in the top ten largest, Victoria Island, NWT & Nunavut  Ellesmere Island, Nunavut and Baffin Islands.
• Victoria Island is roughly the size of England and has a population of in 2017 was 2,162. It has the biggest island within an island in the world. It sits in the boundary between Nunavut and The North West Territories.
• Ellesmere Island, Nunavut is also roughly the size of England. It has a population of 191 people and has the most northern permanent settlement in the world, Alert with a population of 62. Superman movie Man of Steel has scenes filmed on Ellesmere.
• Baffin Island, Nunavut is the largest in Canada being more than double the size of England and the 5^th biggest in the world. Its population is 14,134. Iqualit is on this island and has the highest population by a considerable amount of 7, 740.
• Canada has the highest amount of immigration half the people who live here were born somewhere else.
• Six Cities in Canada have populations over 1 million. They are Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa.
• Even though we live in the 2^nd biggest country in the world, there is only 3 people living per square kilometers. It makes us the 4^th lowest population density in the world.
• The only walled city in North America north of Mexico is Quebec City. It was also the first North American city be named as a World Heritage site by UNESCO. Walled cities were popular in Europe during war times.