Showing posts with the label Canada

Nova Scotia’s Christmas Gift to Boston

Dec 18, 2018

For nearly half a century, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has been sending a gift to the people of Boston in the form of a Christmas t...

Alberta’s War on Rats

Aug 28, 2018

The brown rat is an extremely invasive species—a pest, that survive on human-produced garbage, usually, but often times this nasty rodent ...

The Island Named After A Satellite

Aug 25, 2018

Satellite imagery, made available to the public through applications such as Google Earth and Google Maps, have allowed anybody with a compu...

The Niagara Gorge Railroad

Jun 12, 2018

Before the Niagara river plunges along the Canada–United States border to create the mesmerizing Niagara Falls, it cuts a 11 km long gorge t...

The Canadian Town Called Asbestos

Jun 6, 2018

The asbestos mine in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Photo credit: Denis-Carl Robidoux/Flickr At the heart of the triangle made by the three Can...

Beechey Island And Franklin’s Lost Expedition

Apr 13, 2018

On the southwest corner of Devon Island in the Canadian Archipelago of Nunavut, lies a small desolate island—the island of Beechey. For more...

Fort Blunder: The Fort That America Mistakenly Built in Canada

Apr 10, 2018

During the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, between Great Britain and the United States, the border between British Canada an...

The Library That Stands On Two Countries

Mar 22, 2018

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has two different addresses. If you are American, you’ll say the library is located at “93 Caswell ...

Whale Graveyards

Feb 22, 2018

Movement of the earth’s crust over millions of years have drastically changed the geography of the planet such that what is land now was onc...

Fermont’s Inhabitable Wind Break

Feb 17, 2018

The town of Fermont, situated near the Quebec-Labrador border, is a Canadian mining town. It was founded in the early 1970s by the Québec Ca...