It Happened in Canada

It Happened in Canada was a syndicated Canadian cartoon feature by Gordon Johnston that presented Canadian facts and achievements in a manner similar to Ripley's Believe It or Not!. As many as 65 newspapers in Canada carried the comic during its run from 1967^[1] to the 1980s.^[2][3] Some episodes featured relatively obscure details about Prime Ministers such as R. B. Bennett and John Diefenbaker.^[4]

It Happened in Canada
Author(s)	Gordon Johnston
Current status/schedule	defunct
Launch date	1967
Genre(s)	non-fiction, history

Works

Several collections of the comic were published as books:^[5]

• Johnston, Gordon; Al Oliver (1967). It Happened in Canada. London, Ontario: Algor Features.
• Johnston, Gordon (1971). Johnston's It Happened in Canada. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
• Johnston, Gordon (c. 1976). More It Happened in Canada. Scholastic-TAB.
• Johnston, Gordon (c. 1976). Still More It Happened in Canada. Scholastic-TAB.
• Johnston, Gordon (1983). It Happened in Canada. Methuen.
• Johnston, Gordon (c. 1983). It Happened in Western Canada. Western Producer.
• Johnston, Gordon (1991). It Happened in Canada. Toronto: Scholastic Canada. ISBN 0590740695.