Things you didn’t know about Father’s Day
Google has showcased Father’s Day themed doodles on its main page since 2000. Three starred Dad sleeping on a hammock, four featured ties.
Fifteen years after Woody Allen’s scandal opus marriage to the adopted daughter of ex Mia Farrow, Farrow and Allen’s son Roman quipped on Twitter, Happy Father’s Day or as they call it in my family “Happy Brother in Laws day!”
Canada’s national symbol the beaver is one of the few male creatures in the animal kingdom that sticks around after mating to help raise the kids. In rare cases biologists have even seen male beavers taking on the role of single Dad.
The number of Canadian stay at home Dads has tripled in the last 25 years. Today 12 per cent of the countries two parent families see Dad changing the dia-pers and Mom at work.
Sir John A Mac Donald may have fathered Canada, but his relationship with his own son, High John wasn’t particularly rosy. Knowing that his father frowned upon military life and wanted him to pursue law H.J made sure to enlist in every skirmish and rebellion to strike the young Dominion.