Anhaga's Guide To Canada (in progress)
Created | Updated Jul 18, 2011
At Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane1The Place as a Whole
Our brave fathers side by side
For freedom's home and loved ones dear,
Firmly stood and nobly died.
And so their rights which they maintained,
We swear to yield them never.
Our watchword ever more shall be:
The Maple Leaf Forever!
Alexander Muir (1830-1906)
The First Things
Estipah-skikikini-kots (Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump)Inukshuk
Cluny Earthlodge Village - An Ancient Fortified Settlement in Canada
The Iron Creek Manitou Stone, Alberta
Names and Dates
The Battle of the Plains of AbrahamThe Expulsion of the Acadians
Pontiac's Rebellion
The War of 1812
Major John Richardson
Wacousta
Edmonton, Alberta
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Cave and Basin: The Well-spring of Canada's National Park System
Dinosaur Provincial Park World Heritage Site, Alberta
Old Town Lunenburg World Heritage Site, Nova Scotia, Canada
Grand-Pre National Historic Site, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Halifax Explosion
Nellie McClung: A Person Who Helped to Change the World
Bankhead, Alberta: A Ghost Town
The Edmonton Grads: The Original Dream Team
The Al Rashid Mosque, Edmonton
The Montreal Massacre
Tlicho
Fun and Useful Stuff
Getting Around in Canada in the WinterCaribou (the beverage, not the beast)
The Red Needle: The Drink that Leonard Cohen Made
Tim Hortons: Canada's Unofficial Town Hall
Newfoundland Screech
Internationally Famous Canadians (a list in progress)
Or, talk to some real Canadians, from sea to sea to sea, at Chief Gordon Lightfoot's place, the perpetual rambling Canadian conversation thread whose subject is specifically nothing and generally everything: Should Chief Gordon Lightfoot Reinstate the Saskatchewan Rhinoceros Hunt?
1Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane were key battles in The War of 1812 in which the European and Aboriginal Peoples of the Canadas, together with their British allies, beat back a multi-fronted American invasion of their homeland.
