Death by Exposure (8 page)

Travel Terrific:
www.travelterrific.com/
summer2000/canada_sum00_01.html

Virtual Saskatchewan (The Badlands):
www. virtualsk. com/current_ issue/the_badlands. html

Virtual Saskatchewan (Outlaw Rule):
www.virtualsk.com/current_issue/outlaw_rule.html

The French founded Louisbourg in what is now Nova Scotia in 1713 after ceding Newfoundland and Acadia (New Brunswick) to the British. Over the next few decades the French turned Louisbourg into a major seaport and continually improved its fortifications. In 1745 Louisbourg was temporarily captured by the British, then returned to the French. However, in 1758 the British conquered the fortress town again. This time Britain demolished most of the fortifications and exiled the town's inhabitants to France. Eventually the new British town of Louisbourg sprang up on the other side of the harbour. In 1928 the ruin of the fortress was declared a National Historic Site, and in 1961 Parks Canada began a major reconstruction. Today Fortress Louisbourg, restored to its 1744-era glory, is a major Canadian tourist attraction.

The photo was snapped near the entrance to the fortress. All of the buildings in the picture are part of this magnificent fortress.

WEB SITES

Fortress Louisbourg:
www.louisbourg.ca/fort

Louisbourg Institute:
http://fortress.uccb.ns.ca/parks/fort_e.html

If you travel the La Cloche Silhouette Trail (named after a Franklin Carmichael painting) in Ontario's spectacular Killarney Provincial Park, you'll come upon a spot that looks out over A. Y. Jackson Lake. Located on Georgian Bay, Killarney, a wilderness park, was one of artist Alexander Young Jackson's great inspirations. Jackson (1882-1974) was one of the famous Group of Seven painters who captured the Canadian landscape with oil on canvas. The other group members were Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945), Lawren Harris (1885-1970), Franz Johnston (1888-1949), Arthur Lismer (1885-1969), J. E. H. MacDonald (1881-1932), and Frederick Varley (1881-1969). The group was founded in 1920.

WEB SITES

A. Y. Jackson Biography:
www.tomthomson.org/groupseven/jackaon.html

Group of Seven Online Gallery:
www.groupofsevenart. com/Jackaon/Jackaon_ intro. html

Killarney Provincial Park:
www.friendsofkillarneypark.ca

The 391-metre (1,282-foot) Hartland Covered Bridge in New Brunswick is the world's longest covered bridge. It was originally constructed by the Hartland Bridge Company, which was formed by citizens on both sides of the Saint John River. The wooden bridge was officially opened on July 4, 1901. Two spans of the bridge were swept away by river ice in April 1920. After that disaster, major repairs were made and the structure was covered in 1922. In 1980 the bridge was declared a National Historic Site.

WEB SITES

Hartland Covered Bridge:
www.town.hartland.nb.ca/html/bridge.htm

New Brunswick Covered Bridges:
http://covered_bndges.tripod.com

One of the wonders of the world, Niagara Falls in the Niagara River is the world's greatest waterfall by volume at 2,832 cubic metres (3,701 cubic yards). Niagara is split in half by Goat Island. The American Falls are 64 metres (210 feet) high and 305 metres (999 feet) wide, with a water flow of 14 million litres (3 million gallons) per minute. The Canadian, or Horseshoe, Falls are 54 metres (177 feet) high and 675 metres (2,214 feet) wide, with a water flow of 155 million litres (34 million gallons) per minute.

The falls were created about 10,000 years ago when retreating glaciers exposed the Niagara Escarpment, redirecting the waters of Lake Erie, which originally drained south, northward into Lake Ontario. Niagara is a magnet for tourists, is a popular honeymoon destination for newlyweds, and has long been a major attraction for daredevils who have vaulted over the falls in barrels, boats, and rubber balls. Perhaps the most famous daredevil was Blondin, who walked over the gorge on a tightrope in 1859.

WEB SITES

History Channel:
www.historychannel.com/exhibits/niagara

InfoNiagara-History of the Falls:
www.infoniagara.com/d-history.html

Niagara Parks:
www.niagaraparks.com

The oldest standing salmon cannery village on the British Columbia coast is in Port Edward, south of Prince Rupert. North Pacific Cannery, located on Inverness Passage, the northern arm of the Skeena River, was in operation from 1889 to 1958, with a short reprise in 1972 for one more season. Seven hundred First Nations, Chinese, and Japanese workers were employed at North Pacific at the height of its operation. The cannery village was declared a National Historic Site in 1985. Today it's a museum and a reminder of the rural canneries that helped to commercialize the salmon industry and create the racial tolerance that continues to exist in the North. Eighty percent of the old rural canneries are gone forever.

WEB SITE

North Pacific Cannery Village Museum:
www. district.portedward. bc. ca/northpacific

Banff National Park, Canada's first national park, is one of the most visited spots in the country. People come from around the globe to see the magnificent Rocky Mountains and get a possible glimpse of wildlife. Banff is part of
UNESCO
's Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site (see L'Anse aux Meadows for more information about World Heritage Sites).

Blessed with glaciers, numerous lakes and waterfalls, immense forests, and some of the world's most dramatic mountains, Banff also has an abundance of animals, including moose, elk, black and grizzly bears, bighorn sheep, cougars, and wolves. The photo of white-tailed deer was taken outside Banff Springs Hotel. The deer clearly have no fear of people.

WEB SITES

Deer:
www.deerdomain.com

Discover Banff:
www.discoverbanff.com

Great Canadian Parks:
www.canadianparks.com/alberta/banffnp/index.htm

Parks Canada:
www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/banff/index_e.asp

UNESCO
World Heritage Sites:
http://whc.unesco.org