Nova Scotia’s Christmas Gift to Boston
Kaushik Patowary
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...
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Alberta’s War on Rats
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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...
Fort Conger: Robert Peary’s Arctic Hut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2018
In 1899, when famous arctic explorer Robert Peary reached Ellesmere Island, in Canada, he found the ruins of a hut erected by a previous arc...
Athabasca Sand Dunes
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Stretching for approximately 100 kilometers along the southern edge of Lake Athabasca, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, are some of...
Toronto’s Camouflaged Electric Substations
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2017
More often than not, industrial infrastructures are an eyesore, especially when they are smack in the middle of a beautiful city like Toront...
Puzzling Gravestones
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2017
When Canadian doctor Samuel Bean lost his first two wives, Henrietta and Susanna, within 20 months of each other, he decided that the best w...
Signal Hill: The Birthplace of Modern Communications
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2017
Overlooking the harbour of St John's, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, is a massive piece of rock towering 140 meters above the Atl...
Hamilton, The Waterfall Capital of The World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2017
Niagara Falls might be the most visited waterfalls in North America but the true ‘Waterfall Capital’ of the world lies 50 miles to the west,...
The Sourtoe Cocktail: A Drink Garnished With A Human Toe
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2017
In Dawson City, by the Yukon River, up north in Canada, there is a bar where you can order a shot of whiskey garnished with a real, dehydrat...
The Gastown Steam Clock
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2017
Not far from Vancouver’s waterfront, in the historic Gastown neighborhood, stands one of the city’s major crowd-drawer—a steam-powered clock...
Magdalen: The Island of Shipwreck Survivors
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2017
The small archipelago of Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, off the coast of the Canadian province of Quebec, is home to some 1...
Enormous Iceberg Stranded in Canadian Town
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 22, 2017
Icebergs are not a rare sight off the east coast of Canada. Indeed, there is an area stretching from the coast of Labrador to the northeast ...
