Canadians Michael de Jong and Henry Gold founded the 11,500-kilometre Tour d’Afrique in 2002. The 120-day bicycle race starts at the Giza pyramids, in ElQâhira (Cairo), Egypt, and ends, 120 days later, at Cape Town, South Africa. Racers pay $8,000 (U.S.) to enter, and the money goes to promote sustainable transportation and African biodiversity.

 

Siwa Oasis, west of Cairo, Egypt, was a Berber settlement for centuries, but in 1989, prompted by fears that Berber dwellings were being replaced by modern housing, the Canadian Embassy funded the Siwan House Museum, a dwelling built according to ancient methods.