- the Mi'kmaq invented a game like hockey - except they called it by the catchy name of oomchamkunutk!
- the Vikings played a game using the severed head of an enemy as the ball!
- Canada almost got named Transylvania!
- John Cabot took his barber on all his voyages, but not his son! many of Jacques Cartier's "settlers" were actually convicts . . . because nobody else would go!
- Samuel Champlain logged over 233,000 kilometres on his voyages - that's like 6 times around the world!
- one famous voyageur, nicknamed Bras-de-Fer (Iron Arm), had a metal hand like Captain Hook's!
