The first award of a score of perfect 10 at an Olympics Games gymnastic event was to Nadia Comaneci (Romania) for her uneven bars routine in the team competition in Montreal, Canada, on 18 July 1976.

The first shootout goal in NHL history was scored – on the first ever shot – by Daniel Alfredsson (Sweden), playing for the Ottawa Senators, against the Toronto Maple Leafs and goaltender Ed Belfour (Canada) at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, on 5 October 2005.

The 1976 Games in Toronto, Canada, represented the first time that the Paralympics had been televised in its entirety. Events were broadcast daily to more than half a million viewers across Ontario, Canada.

The greatest distance by a vehicle in reverse on snow in 30 seconds is 300 m (984 ft 3 in) and was achieved by Mitsubishi Motors North America in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on 15 January 2011. The attempt took place on the frozen Ghost Lake outside Calgary and was filmed for a Mitsubishi television commercial.

The greatest distance achieved by pedal-powered boat in 24 hours is 245.16 km (152.33 m) by Greg Kolodziejzyk (Canada) on Whitefish Lake, Montana, USA, on 8-9 September 2008.

The record for the greatest distance moonwalked in 24 hrs is 49.252 km (30.60 miles) achieved by Arulanantham Suresh Joachim (Sri Lanka) at The Fregata Restaurant & Night Club, Ontario, Canada, on 11 January 2006.

Kevin Fast (Canada) pulled a CC-177 Globemaster III, weighing 188.83 tonnes (416,299 lb), a distance of 8.8 m (28 ft 10.46 in) at Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, Canada, on 17 September 2009. 

The heaviest house pulled by an individual weighed 35.9 tonnes (79,145 lb) and was achieved by Kevin Fast (Canada) who pulled the house a distance of 11.95 metres (39 ft 2.47 in) in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, on 18 September 2010. The attempt was done in celebration of the launch of Guinness World Records 2011 and as part of a fundraising event for Habitat for Humanity Northumberland. It took Kevin 1 minute 1 second to pull the house.

The heaviest squash weighs 674.31 kg (1,486.6 lb) and was grown by Joel Jarvis (Canada) and weighed at Port Elgin Pumpkinfest in Ontario, Canada, on 1 October 2011.

The heaviest sumo deadlift in one minute is 4778.6 kg (10,535 lb) by Walter Urban (USA) at Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, on 29 September 2012. Urban completed 49 repetitions of 97.5 kg (215 lb) during his record attempt, broadcast live on CBC’s Sports Day in Canada.