Second largest country in the world, Canada shares the longest international border with U.S., 8800 km; and it has got the longest coastline i.e.2,43,976 km. Although Canada became a country in 1867, its maple leaf national flag came into existence in 1965.
Shielded from cosmic rays, two kilometers below the earth’s surface near Sudbury in Ontario, one can find a vast physics laboratory that is unraveling the deep secrets of the universe. Called Snowlab, this is the cleanest underground laboratory dedicated to the research of dark matter and neutrinos, the subatomic particles which can traverse dense matter and can travel trillions of light years of distances.
St. Paul, Alberta is the town that built a UFO Landing Pad to celebrate Canada’s centennial in 1967. The Tourist Information Centre is located beside the UFO Landing Pad. This center displays photos of UFOs, crop circles, various scientific and hoaxes associated with UFOs. Report the center immediately if you happen to see a UFO!
The greatest part of Niagara Falls is located in Canada. It is a spot where one can both challenge life and give up the life. People have performed thrilling adventures and people have committed suicides here. On October 24,1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take a successful plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Daredevils have every now and then challenged the Niagara falls ever since with a 25 percent mortality rate. Kirk Jones became the only known person to survive a jump over the falls without a barrel or flotation device in 2003. Each year, between 20 and 25 people decide to end themselves at Niagara Falls, which is second only to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge as the nation's top suicide destination.
Sands of central Alberta hold a huge repository of oil. Canada exports a million barrels of oil to U.S. every day.
On the shores of Hudson Bay, there is a small village called Manitoba. This small village is an attraction of two kinds of tourists – polar bears who gather for hunting seals and foreigners who gather to watch and photograph them. Polar bears, one of the endangered species, may peep in your vehicle or through the door in search of food. Some of them are playful and few could prove aggressive and fatal.
In Canada, attempts have been to protect animal life by connecting their habitats by constructing overpasses, underpasses and bridges. These passages allow animals to cross highways bypassing human activity. It has been found that the rats use the corridor to move back and forth between the two areas more than elk, deer, bears, wolves, moose etc.!
600 by 70-kilometer zone in the Canadian province of Alberta enjoys the reputation of being rat free for last 60 years. The rats attacked Alberta around the time of World War II in awful numbers. It was then that Alberta authorities decided to declare a war against them to route them out completely. And, they have maintained the zone rat-free since then.
Shielded from cosmic rays, two kilometers below the earth’s surface near Sudbury in Ontario, one can find a vast physics laboratory that is unraveling the deep secrets of the universe. Called Snowlab, this is the cleanest underground laboratory dedicated to the research of dark matter and neutrinos, the subatomic particles which can traverse dense matter and can travel trillions of light years of distances.
St. Paul, Alberta is the town that built a UFO Landing Pad to celebrate Canada’s centennial in 1967. The Tourist Information Centre is located beside the UFO Landing Pad. This center displays photos of UFOs, crop circles, various scientific and hoaxes associated with UFOs. Report the center immediately if you happen to see a UFO!
The greatest part of Niagara Falls is located in Canada. It is a spot where one can both challenge life and give up the life. People have performed thrilling adventures and people have committed suicides here. On October 24,1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take a successful plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Daredevils have every now and then challenged the Niagara falls ever since with a 25 percent mortality rate. Kirk Jones became the only known person to survive a jump over the falls without a barrel or flotation device in 2003. Each year, between 20 and 25 people decide to end themselves at Niagara Falls, which is second only to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge as the nation's top suicide destination.
Sands of central Alberta hold a huge repository of oil. Canada exports a million barrels of oil to U.S. every day.
On the shores of Hudson Bay, there is a small village called Manitoba. This small village is an attraction of two kinds of tourists – polar bears who gather for hunting seals and foreigners who gather to watch and photograph them. Polar bears, one of the endangered species, may peep in your vehicle or through the door in search of food. Some of them are playful and few could prove aggressive and fatal.
In Canada, attempts have been to protect animal life by connecting their habitats by constructing overpasses, underpasses and bridges. These passages allow animals to cross highways bypassing human activity. It has been found that the rats use the corridor to move back and forth between the two areas more than elk, deer, bears, wolves, moose etc.!
600 by 70-kilometer zone in the Canadian province of Alberta enjoys the reputation of being rat free for last 60 years. The rats attacked Alberta around the time of World War II in awful numbers. It was then that Alberta authorities decided to declare a war against them to route them out completely. And, they have maintained the zone rat-free since then.
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