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NXyee TIL In 1910, Canada tried to attract settlers with its campaign "The Last Best West" to promote free land with the slogan "Living is cheap; climate is good; education and land are free.” More than two million settlers from Europe and the US poured into the prairies from 1896 to 1914
l7OxN TIL Much of Canada's National Parks were built by suspected enemies of state, conscientious objectors, and the jobless. In 1943, 440 German POWs were brought to Riding Mountain National Park where they captured a bear and made it the camp mascot.
9wP06 TIL that, by one definition, Canada did not become politically independent of Great Britain until 1931. Because it was a gradual process, it is quite difficult to identify a single date of Canadian independence.