Sharon Adele Wood: Canadian Mountaineer
At age 17, she became the first western woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Canadian Fauna: ProngHorn, ProngBuck or American Antelope
It lives in Saskatchewan and Alberta as well as in the USA and although similar to the deer it is not a member of this family.
The ProngHorn is the fastest animal in the Western Hemisphere and second in the world after the cheetah which used to live in North America.
In the Summer, they live with small groups or in solitary. In the Winter, they form large herds and not only can it reach 55-85 km/ph it can maintain that speed for hours!
It is the only member of the Antilocapridae family, one of 12 species that existed during the Pleistocene in N. America and one of the five remaining by the time humans entered these territories...
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O´Neill CoLd Water CLassic: Tofino, B.C Canada
National Geographic recently named Tofino one of the world's best beach towns, but water temperatures barely get above 50 degrees Fahrenheit during this surfing classic...
When the females of this one-street village of 1,200 souls heard they were not eligible to surf in Coldwater Canada the first women's competition: Queen of the Peak, was set up for the previous day.
Watch surf cams in http://queenofthepeak.com/
The Lemming (Lemmus lemmus)
This a tundra (treeless areas of Northern Canada) herbivore rodent, between 10-15 centimeters long, and weighting around 80 grams.
Every 5 weeks, the female can give birth to about 8 young!
It´s the main sustenance for arctic foxes, ermines, snowy owls, jaegers (any of 3 species of rapacious, sea-bird of genus Stercorarius) and gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus).
Lemmings´ Mass Suicide: A MYTH
By Robert Leighton for The New Yorker
800 Year OLd DougLas Fir Tree
This enormous specimen of the Pinaceae family is located in Cathedral Grove
(Port Alberni, British Columbia)
Photo by Gillian (EverySpoon)
The EyE of Quebec: Manicouagan Crater
With its 100 km diameter it is one of the largest on the surface of Earth, forming an annular lake that covers an area of 1,942 km². In its centre is the René-Levasseur Island with Mount Babel as the highest point.
Approximately 214 million years ago, an estimated 10 km wide meteorite impacted our planet at between 12-30 kilometres per second, forming the Manicouagan Impact Structure.
This is the fifth largest reservoir by volume in the world.
Canadian Landscape Painter: Lawren Harris
"Nerke" an Artic Greenland painting, sold for $2,072,500. It was originally estimated at only $300,000.
"Bylot Island"
"Northern Painting 25" (1924)
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff National Park, ALberta (1887/1928)
The 1888 wooden building which cost $250.000 and included more than 100 bedrooms (expanding in 1902 to 200 bedrooms), burnt down and re-building started in 1904.
Its 1914 "Painter Tower" 300 guest rooms at a cost of $2 million, was for some time the tallest building in Canada!
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