What We Know About Canada

We are having an interesting conversation about what we already know about Canada. We know many things like:
- Cities and provinces that are a part of Canada
- Inukshuks
- Lakes and rivers
- Lots of trees
- Lots of animals
- Lots of people live in Canada

This last point sparked a wonder about Canada. How many people actually do live here? Some of our guesses include:
- 9000
- 1 000 000
- 100 900
- "it never ends because people keep having babies"
- 9316
- 10 000
- 1 010 056
- 200
- 3 000 000
- 9 000 065
- "infinity never ending"
- 10 000 000 000

We decided we needed a reference for our guesses. We looked up the population of Winnipeg so that we would have a starting point. The population of Winnipeg according to http://www.wikipedia.org/ and the 2006 census was 694 668 people.

Some of our new guesses are:
- 1 trillion
- 10 billion
- 15 trillion
- 11 billion
- 18 trillion
- 900 000 000 000
- 900 trillion
- 500 trillion

We used http://www.wikipedia.org/ to look up the actual population of Canada. It is 34 410 000 (as of a 2011 estimate). We were surprised that it was only in the millions since it is such a big country. We think this might be because lots of people live in the USA, lots of people live on the other side of the world and because there is a lot of land here but it is too cold.