Virtual Postcrossing Meeting - Toronto, Canada

The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. About half of its residents were born outside of Canada and over 200 ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. 

 

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site - Baddeck, Canada

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site is a 10-hectare property in Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, overlooking the Bras d'Or Lakes. The site is a unit of Parks Canada, the national park system, and includes the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site, which contains the largest repository of artefacts and documents from Bell's years of experimental work in Baddeck. This site was designated a National Historic Site in 1952.

 

Altare della Patria in Roma - Ottawa, Canada

Vittoriano is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy, in Rome, Italy. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was realized by Giuseppe Sacconi.

 

Vermouth Martini - Winnipeg, Canada

Vermouth is an aromatized fortified wine, flavored with various botanicals (roots, barks, flowers, seeds, herbs, and spices) and sometimes colored.

The modern versions of the beverage were first produced in the mid-to-late 18th century in Turin, Italy. While vermouth was traditionally used for medicinal purposes, it was later served an apéritif, with fashionable cafés in Turin serving it to guests around the clock.

 

Enoch Bolles, Circa 1935 - Montreal, Canada

Enoch Bolles was among the earliest and most widely circulated glamour illustrators. While known today solely as a pinup artist, Bolles was a versatile illustrator who also worked extensively in the advertising industry, creating hundreds of attractive color illustrations for products ranging from bread to cigarettes. 

His most widely reproduced advertising illustration is the "Windy Girl" for Zippo lighters. This work, produced in 1937, has recently been reissued as the Vargas Windy Girl and has appeared in well over 100 variations on Zippo lighters.

 

Niagara Falls - Niagara Falls, Canada

The Canadian side of the waterfall is much more attractive to tourists, as it overlooks the falling water of the American cascade and a good view of the Canadian cascade, although this one is usually partially obscured by clouds of droplets, constantly formed by falling water masses.   

Glamour girl - Toronto, Canada

The country is the largest producer and consumer of cheese. In 1997, Canadians produced 350,000 tonnes of cheese - 32 varieties, and ate an average of 9 kg per person, with cheddar being the most popular.  

#14 GF - Toronto, Canada

The famous Canadian insertion "eh" is actually listed in the Canadian Oxford dictionary as the correct word. Ogopogo is a mythical monster similar to the Loch Ness monster, which apparently lives in Lake Okanagan, BC. 

You can write a letter and send it to:

Santa Claus

North Pole H0H 0H0

Canada

#2 FOTW - Canada

The use of the maple leaf as a Canadian symbol dates to the early 18th century.

The Canadian music industry is the sixth-largest in the world producing internationally renowned composers, musicians, and ensembles.