Knowing Our Land

Today, we were talking about someone who we know was moving to British Columbia. Sienna heard it and went, "British Columbia? But we are in Ontario!" As it turned out, apart from a thing or two about the 9 planets in our solar system, Sienna also knows that this country has 10 provinces and 3 territories. And she cites each and every one of them. We know Newfoundland. No. According to her, it is "Newfoundland and Labrador" to be exact. Is Prince Edward Island an island? No use fooling around with her, it's one of the provinces, she said! What about Winnipeg? "It sounds funny. It's not a province." For whatever she learnt, I bet she could have scored 100%. However, I couldn't figure out why she insisted on pronouncing "Quebec" something like "cubic".

What use of knowing all these? Not much -- just really cute for a 4 1/2 year old.