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On April 29, 1903, the deadliest landslide in Canadian history blew out the east face of Turtle Mountain in southwestern Alberta, killing over 70 people in the town of Frank. This disaster is known as The Frank Slide. Turtle Mountain is about 250 km south of Calgary.
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I’ve been in Ottawa for about two months, renovating the condo we own in order to rent it out, and never intended to stay this late in the year. I still have to drive west across the US, back to Oregon to start renovating our new house there. The snowfall gives a swift kick in the butt to get on the road, and a little anxiety about what it’s going to be like driving through the mountains.
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Small mock inuksuit are built by travellers and displayed on the rocky edges beside Hwy 17 in Eastern Ontario, particularly west of North Bay. Those in the shape of human forms are “inunnguaq”, historically built by the Inuit to help herd cariboo. I built one of my own too, but it’s not as easy as it looks! Next, Lichen amass on shoreline rocks along Lake Superior, Ontario, the largest freshwater lake in the world.
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Canada Goose monument in Wawa, Ontario commemorating the opening of the last link of the Lake Superior section of the the Trans-Canada Highway on Sept. 16th, 1060.
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Manitoba is notorious for its clouds of mosquitoes during the summer. 1st photo – Yorkton, Saskatchewan, 2nd photo – about 200 miles west of Winnipeg.
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Vegreville, Alberta, cnada boasts the largest Easter egg, or Ukrainian Pysanka, in the world. The work by Paul Maxum Sembaliuk is 31 ft (9 m) long and three and a half stories high. Vegreville, Alberta is noted for its high Ukrainian Canadian population.