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The Great Canadian Trivia Book
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The Great Canadian Trivia Book Paperback - 1996

by Randy Ray; Mark Kearney


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Canada has given the world the real Winnie the Pooh, the phrase "Beatlemania," and the man who invented the Academy Awards. If it weren't for Canada, we might not have the pie-in-the-face gag, basketball, time zones, or the dotted white line on the middle of highways.

And anyone who still thinks Canada is dull obviously doesn't know about the Canadian who was the longest serving prisoner on Alcatraz, or the night that members of Parliament threw books and toy balloons at each other during a wild debate in the House of Commons. The Great Canadian Trivia Book explores the noteworthy and the notorious, the factual and the phenomenal, the obscure and outlandish sides of the Great White North.

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Canada is still saddled with the image that its history is dull.

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  • Title The Great Canadian Trivia Book
  • Author Randy Ray; Mark Kearney
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dundurn Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Date October 1, 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780888821881 / 0888821883
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 5.82 x 0.6 in (23.01 x 14.78 x 1.52 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971.002

About the author

Mark Kearney was born in Toronto, grew up in Pickering, Ontario, and graduated in journalism from the University of Western Ontario in 1977. Kearney has been a full-time freelance writer since 1989 after working as a reporter for the London Free Press and in public relations for the Ontario government. Kearney's articles have appeared in some sixty publications in North America, and he teaches writing at the University of Western Ontario and Lambton College. He is married and lives in London, Ontario.

Randy Ray was born and raised in Toronto and is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. He has been a freelance writer since 1989 after working as a reporter for the London Free Press for thirteen years, including three years as the newspaper's Parliament Hill bureau chief. Ray's articles have appeared in more than fifty publications, including The Ottawa Citizen and The Globe and Mail. He is married, has three children, and lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

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