🍁✨🇨🇦 A Little Love Letter to Canada
And a few wild facts that’ll make you say “no way!”
Hey friends,
I was born in Moncton, New Brunswick—home of the mysterious Magnetic Hill, where cars appear to roll uphill in neutral. (Spoiler: it’s an optical illusion… kinda like how our bodies sometimes trick us into thinking we’re “broken” when we’re actually just inflamed.)
As a navy’s daughter, a lifelong history buff, and someone who was once married on Canada Day, I can say with full heart: I’ll never live anywhere else. This land is magic. From butter tarts to belugas, from maple syrup to Magnetic Hill—Canada is full of wonder, weirdness, and quiet strength.
Here are just a few reasons I’ll always call it home:
📬 The longest waitlist in Canadian history? The Peace Tower flag from Parliament Hill. I received mine in 2011! (Photo in comments.)
👑 I even saw the Queen on Canada Day in 2010 with my son. 🌊 I’ve been to Niagara Falls 10 times (7 of those with one person 😉) and I’m ready for lucky number 11. 🍁 Canada didn’t get its own flag until 1965—almost 100 years after becoming a country!
🌍 World’s Best & Most Fascinating Canada Facts
🇨🇦 Second-largest country in the world by landmass
🌊 Longest coastline on Earth—over 243,000 km
🧊 Holds 20% of the world’s freshwater (and more lakes than any other country!)
🪨 Home to the oldest rocks on Earth—4.28 billion years old
🧪 Scientists in Ontario discovered 1.5-billion-year-old water in a mine
🏝️ Manitoulin Island is the largest freshwater island in the world
🐻 Churchill, Manitoba = Polar Bear Capital of the World
🐋 Also home to the largest beluga whale migration
❄️ Rideau Canal becomes the world’s largest skating rink every winter
🧲 Hudson Bay has less gravity than the rest of the planet (yes, really!)
🌞 The Northwest Territories is called the Land of the Midnight Sun
🍁 Canadian Firsts, Inventions & Quirks
🍕 Hawaiian pizza? Born in Chatham, Ontario
🧁 Butter tarts? Barrie, Ontario
🍫 Nanaimo bars? Nanaimo, BC
🥛 75% of Canadians drink milk from bags
🍹 Our national cocktail is the Caesar (made with Clamato juice)
🍟 Poutine was created in Montreal in the 1950s
🧀 We eat more mac & cheese (aka Kraft Dinner) than any other country
🍩 More doughnuts per capita than anywhere else (and the most doughnut shops!)
🍦 Canadians buy more ice cream in winter than summer ❄️🍦
🏀 Basketball was invented by Canadian Dr. James Naismith
🧤 The baseball glove? Also Canadian
🎅 You can write to Santa at the North Pole (H0H 0H0) and get a letter back—my son did until grade 7!
💸 Our money is colour-coded and vision-impaired friendly
🦶 It’s illegal to kill a Sasquatch in BC (we protect our legends!)
🍻 Kitchener, Ontario hosts the largest Oktoberfest outside of Germany
🙏 We really do say “sorry” a lot—and legally, it doesn’t count as an admission of guilt 😅
From the Rideau Canal to Magnetic Hill, from maple syrup to moonlight that never ends—Canada is full of magic, mystery, and maple-sweet resilience. I’m proud to call it home for 58.5 years.
🎆 Happy Canada Day, friends! Let’s keep learning, loving, and leading with kindness. Always. We are all connected.
🎥 Today’s Video:
Why Your Startle Reflex Might Not Be PTSD or C-PTSD It could be CIRS, MCAS & mold illness—since the womb.
If you’re a quiet, strong, highly sensitive empath… If you were a parentified child now raising a sick firstborn son or daughter… This one’s for you. 💛
👉 Watch the video on YouTube
Why you startle has nothing to do with C-PTSD
Sending love from Canada’s capital, Dee 💜
✨ PSA for my gentle tribe:
I don’t spend much time on social media and often miss messages here. If you’re struggling or want to connect more deeply, please reach out by email instead.
I offer support for those managing chronic inflammation, mould illness, histamine issues or just feeling unwell and overwhelmed. My work runs on barter and dana (generosity) —no one is turned away.
If you want help, email me and share whatever you’re comfortable with about:
✅ Where you’ve lived, worked, or played (possible mould/toxin exposure)
✅ Do you live in a clean, cozy nest or a dark, damp den? How often do you dust?
✅ How much water you drink daily
✅ Medications you take
✅ How much protein you eat daily
✅ Vitamins or supplements you take
✅ How often you fast, or how many hours you go between your last meal and first meal next day
✅ When you go to bed and when you wake up
✅ Do you stop eating and drinking 3 hours before bed?
✅ Your digestion, sleep, energy, and symptoms
✅ What your stools are like and how often you go
✅ How often you move, walk, or do lymphatic drainage
✅ If you use red light therapy, massage tools, lymph brushes, coconut oil for oil pulling, grounding mats
✅ Do you wear Crocs or other synthetic shoes often?
✅ How you de-stress and nourish your microbiome (plant diversity each week)
✅ Do you have at least one person you can tell everything to who believes you and your symptoms?
✅ Are your relationships supportive and cheering you on, or are they tense and walking on eggshells?
✅ Anything else you think might matter
No judgment. Just care.
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https://destresswithdee.substack.com/
Sending loving kindness from Canada’s capital to all the peacemakers and peacekeepers this Canada Day. ❤️🍁
Momma Lovey Dee ❤️
How lovely. So many interesting facts. I love this country too. Thank you for the message. Wishing only good things for you and your loved ones. Love
Cunulus☁️