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Inspired by his hero, Terry Fox, he completed a 7,342 km run across Canada in 99 days. [37] He set out on 1 April 2024 from St Johns, Newfoundland and arrived in Victoria, British Columbia on 7 July 2024, 99 days later. He ran the entire route at approximately 75 km/day, with each day broken into three 25 km segments.
The metrication logo used in Canada during the 1970s and 1980s. Metrication in Canada began in 1970 and ceased in 1985. While Canada has converted to the metric system for many purposes, there is still significant use of non-metric units and standards in many sectors of the Canadian economy and everyday life.
Canada covers 9,984,670 km 2 (3,855,100 sq mi) and a panoply of various geoclimatic regions, of which there are seven main regions. [9] Canada also encompasses vast maritime terrain, with the world's longest coastline of 243,042 kilometres (151,019 mi). [20] The physical geography of Canada is widely varied.
3.5516328125 mL 0.1201 US fl oz cubic yard yard cube or verge cube: a volume equal to that of a cube each side of which measures one yard 764.554857984 dm 3: cubic foot pied cube: 1 ⁄ 27 cu yd 28.316846592 dm 3: cubic inch pouce cube: 1 ⁄ 1,728 cu ft 16.387064 cm 3
The city proper has since expanded past its original limits through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km 2 (243.3 sq mi). The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada .
With a land area of 9,426.73 km 2 (3,639.68 sq mi), the Edmonton CMA had a population density of 123.0/km 2 (318.7/sq mi) in 2011. [114] Statistics Canada's latest estimate of the Edmonton CMA population, as of July 1, 2016, is 1,363,300 [174] The Edmonton population centre is the core [175] of the Edmonton CMA.
The network of the Trans Canada Trail is made up of more than 400 community trails. Each trail section is developed, owned, and managed locally by trail groups, conservation authorities, and by municipal, provincial, territorial, and federal governments, for instance in parks such as Gatineau Park or along existing trails such as the Cataraqui Trail and Voyageur Hiking Trail.
Earth radius (denoted as R 🜨 or R E) is the distance from the center of Earth to a point on or near its surface. Approximating the figure of Earth by an Earth spheroid (an oblate ellipsoid), the radius ranges from a maximum (equatorial radius, denoted a) of nearly 6,378 km (3,963 mi) to a minimum (polar radius, denoted b) of nearly 6,357 km (3,950 mi).