{"product_id":"9781926700243","title":"Bizarre Canada: Wonderfully Weird \u0026 Hilarious","description":"Canada is rife with the weird, wacky and off-the-wall from sea to shining sea: \u003cbr\u003e• Besides ''Canada,'' a slew of strange names were seriously considered prior to Confederation -- New Britannia, Laurentia, Ursalia, Vesporia, Cabotia, Niagarentia -- but the most bizarre of all, Efisga \u003cbr\u003e• The outspoken Hockey Night in Canada commentator earned the nickname ''Hot Lips Don Cherry'' when he kissed NHLer Doug Gilmour during the playoffs \u003cbr\u003e• When Alberta's first provincial legislature needed an official mace in a hurry, they made one out of plumbing pipe, shaving mug handles and a toilet tank float, and then painted the whole thing gold \u003cbr\u003e• In 1903, car licence plates in Ontario were made of patent leather \u003cbr\u003e• Each year, the Pumpkin Festival in Windsor-Hants, Nova Scotia, includes a weigh-off and a Pumpkin Regatta, where dozens of pumpkin boats compete in a 500-metre race \u003cbr\u003e• Canadian snow apparently is very cool in Puerto Rico: the white stuff has been shipped 3200 miles south on three separate occasions over the past decade and was kept frosty in large refrigerated containers. \u003cbr\u003e• You'll find these and many more strange and wonderful tales between the covers of BIZARRE CANADA!","brand":"Blue Bike Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051243520240,"sku":"9781926700243","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781926700243_p0.jpg?v=1763635061","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781926700243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}