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{{Infobox Comic strip
|title=It Happened in Canada
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|creator=[[Gordon Johnston (artist)|Gordon Johnston]]
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|status=defunct
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|genre=non-fiction, history
|first= 1967
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'''''It Happened in Canada''''' was a syndicated [[Canada|Canadian]] cartoon feature by [[Gordon Johnston (artist)|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<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.westernu.ca/2013/01/canadian-cartoonist-inspired-by-history/|title=Western News - Canadian cartoonist inspired by history|date=31 January 2013}}</ref> to the 1980s.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] | date=4 August 1983 | author=The Canadian Press | author-link=The Canadian Press | title=Gordon Johnston | page=9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cartoons-and-comic-strips | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305100525/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1SEC817926 | url-status=live | archive-date=5 March 2009 | encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] | title=Cartoons and Comic Strips |author1=Layng, Craig |author2=Monet, Don | access-date=31 January 2009}}</ref> Some episodes featured relatively obscure details about Prime Ministers such as [[R. B. Bennett]] and [[John Diefenbaker]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=1126738539034_206_191_57_196&l=0&lvl=1&v=0&coll=1&itm=226431&rt=1&bill=1 | title=Gordon Johnston fonds | publisher=Canadian Archival Information Network | access-date=31 January 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725184540/http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=1126738539034_206_191_57_196&l=0&lvl=1&v=0&coll=1&itm=226431&rt=1&bill=1 | archive-date=25 July 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Works==
Several collections of the comic were published as books:<ref>[[Library and Archives Canada]], catalogue</ref>
* {{Cite book | title=It Happened in Canada | first=Gordon | last=Johnston |author2=Al Oliver | year=1967 | publisher=Algor Features | location=London, Ontario }}
* {{Cite book | title=Johnston's It Happened in Canada | first=Gordon | last=Johnston | year=1971 | work=[[Toronto Star]] Reader Service }}
* {{Cite book | title=More It Happened in Canada | first=Gordon | last=Johnston | year=c. 1976 | publisher=[[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic-TAB]] }}
* {{Cite book | title=Still More It Happened in Canada | first=Gordon | last=Johnston | year=c. 1976 | publisher=[[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic-TAB]] }}
* {{Cite book | title=It Happened in Canada | first=Gordon | last=Johnston | year=1983 | publisher=[[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]] }}
* {{Cite book | title=It Happened in Western Canada | first=Gordon | last=Johnston | year=c. 1983 | publisher=Western Producer }}
* {{Cite book | title=It Happened in Canada | first=Gordon | last=Johnston | year=1991 | publisher=Scholastic Canada|isbn=0590740695 |location=Toronto}}

==References==
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