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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.
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Yoho National Park is located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains along the western slope of the Continental Divide in southeastern British Columbia.
Shopping carts in Lake Ontario, Kingston ON
Thunderbird Park, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC
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Arbutus trees, first thumbnail, only grow in the Pacific Northwest, here on Salt Spring Island, B.C. and in parts of China, nowhere else in the world. They are popular carve-your-name-in-the-trunk trees because the bark heals into a soft well-defined scar. A few trees on the island have been abused like this. Still, they couldn’t take the beautiful away! Groups of three and four Fluted Swallowtails spiraled in and out of the sunlight as I walked down the mountain road on Salt Spring Island. Fortunately one briefly settled on a fir tree.
Insect gall on Eastern Cottonwood leaf, Ottawa, ON
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Morning light shining through hazy forest, Sarsparilla Trail, Ottawa, ON
Daisies, Stony Swamp Trail, Ottawa, ON
Stony Swamp trail near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Gold in the Mountains, Poplar trees, Kananaskas Valley, Alberta
