Things to find in Canada

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• Bay of Fundy amethyst Gem & mineral ground
  The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides on Earth, up to sixteen metres, and twice a day they scour the basalt cliffs of the Nova Scotia shore and drop amethyst, agate and zeolite crystals onto the beaches. The shore around...
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• Franklin’s lost expedition Legend
  Sir John Franklin sailed in 1845 with 129 men to force the Northwest Passage and every one of them died. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were beset in the ice off King William Island; the crews abandoned ship and walked, and the...
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• Giant Mine and the arsenic under Yellowknife Legend
  Giant Mine produced more than seven million ounces of gold beside Yellowknife between 1948 and 2004, and roasting the arsenopyrite ore to get it out left 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust stored in chambers underground. It...
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• Oak Island and the Money Pit Legend
  The most famous treasure hunt on Earth. Since 1795, when three boys found a saucer-shaped depression under an old oak on this little island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, people have dug for whatever lies at the bottom of the “Money...
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• Shanawdithit and the Beothuk Legend
  The Beothuk were the people of Newfoundland, and they are gone. Squeezed off the coast and away from their food by European settlement, hunted, and hollowed out by tuberculosis, their numbers collapsed through the 1700s....
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• Signal Hill and the first transatlantic signal Legend
  On 12 December 1901 Guglielmo Marconi, flying a kite antenna 150 metres up in a gale on this headland over St John’s, said he heard three faint clicks through the static: the letter S in Morse, sent 3,400 kilometres from...
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• The Cremation of Sam McGee Legend
  The Yukon’s folklore was written in verse. Robert Service, the “Bard of the Yukon,” worked in Whitehorse and Dawson in the gold-rush years and turned the country into ballads that every Canadian schoolchild still learns: The...
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• The Cypress Hills massacre Legend
  In June 1873 a party of American wolf hunters, having lost horses and having been drinking, attacked a camp of Nakoda people in the Cypress Hills and killed something over twenty of them, mostly as they fled. It was violence of a...
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• The Dungarvon Whooper Legend
  New Brunswick’s best-known ghost. The story from the Miramichi lumber camps is that a young cook on the Dungarvon River was murdered for the money in his belt, buried in the snow by the crew, and that ever since a scream comes...
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• The Falcon Lake incident Legend
  Canada’s most physically documented UFO case. On 20 May 1967 Stefan Michalak, an industrial mechanic prospecting for quartz near Falcon Lake, said he approached a landed craft, was hit by a blast of hot gas from a grid of holes...
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• The Hopewell Rocks and the Fundy tides Legend
  The Bay of Fundy moves more water twice a day than every river on Earth combined, and the tide here runs up to sixteen metres. At Hopewell the sea has cut the cliff into free-standing flowerpot stacks with trees on top: at low...
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• The Nahanni and Headless Valley Legend
  The South Nahanni cuts canyons more than a kilometre deep through the Mackenzie Mountains, and drops over Virginia Falls at twice the height of Niagara. The name that stuck to one stretch is Headless Valley, after the McLeod...
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• The St Louis ghost train Legend
  For decades people drove out to an abandoned rail grade near St Louis, Saskatchewan, to watch a white light come up the line and swing, with a smaller red light behind it, exactly as a brakeman’s lantern would. It is one of the...
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• The Vikings of Vinland Legend
  Five hundred years before Columbus, Norse sailors from Greenland landed in North America and built a settlement of turf houses at what is now L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. It was long only a saga story, until a Norwegian...
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• The petroforms of the Whiteshell Legend
  On the flat granite ridges of the Whiteshell, Anishinaabe people laid out boulders into the shapes of snakes, turtles, fish and human figures, some of them tens of metres long. Estimates of their age run to a few thousand years....
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• The phantom ship of Northumberland Strait Legend
  For two centuries people on both shores of the strait, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, have reported a three-masted sailing ship burning on the water, sometimes with figures moving in the rigging, that vanishes when boats...
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