John Kricfalusi: Canadian Animator
This American TV series has two main characters aired in Nickelodeon: Ren Höek, an emotionally unstable chihuahua, and Stimpson J. Cat a good but silly cat.
Copper ThunderBird: Canadian Aboriginal Artist
His full name was Jean-Baptiste Norman Henry Morrisseau and was known as the Picasso of the North.
Artist and Shaman between Two Worlds, 1980
National Gallery of Canada
(1976)
Moose 1990´s
The Niagara FaLLs (Canada-USA)
The HorseShoe Falls are one of the most voluminous waterfalls in the world! It´s 790 m wide (2.600 feet).
FrenchMan Samuel Champlain described it in his journals, during his exploration of Canada in 1604.
Before the American Nick Wallenda´s crossing of the Niagara Falls in 2012, FrencMan Charles Blondin did it in various ways in 1859.
The only woman to cross the Niagara Falls gorge, was the italian tightrope walker Maria Spelterini who crossed it three times in 1876.
Doug Wright: Canadian Cartoonist
In 2005 a prize for excellence in Canadian cartooning was created in his honor:
The Doug Wright Awards
Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: The Inuit
This is the flag of Nunavut composed of the traditional stone monument that marks sacred sites and guides travelers and the North Star. It was created in 1999.
The Inuit or "people" live mostly in the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic.
Native women in gala dress.
Geraldine Moodie photographs (1904-1905 Hudson Bay expedition
Aheamuit, Tribe of Arloo, Arviat, 1937
Donald Benjamin Marsh (1903-1973)
Inuit is a plural noun, its singular is Inuk.
Hudson's Bay Company Ships with Inuit off the Upper Savage Islands,
Hudson Strait, 1819
Here is the Coat of Arms with the caribou or reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), the narwhal (Monodon monoceros), an igloo and an iceberg, dwarf fireweed (Chamerion latifolium), Arctic poppies (Papaver radicatum) and Arctic heather (Cassiope tetragona).
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)
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