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In April 1980 a 21 year old from Port Coquitlam dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic and started running a marathon a day across Canada. He never reached the Pacific. Canada has been finishing his run ever since.
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On April 1, 1999 Canada redrew its map for the first time in half a century, dividing the Northwest Territories to create Nunavut, a homeland governed by Inuit, in Inuit languages, by design.
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When United States airspace closed on September 11, 2001, 38 airliners landed in Gander, Newfoundland, a town of about ten thousand people. What Gander did in the next five days became world famous. The plain record is even better.
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