Canada's World Wonders (eBook)

Ron Brown (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
208 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-4096-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Take an eclectic journey across Canada to seek out our world-renowned natural and historic landmarks, such as the relics of a famous gold rush, North America’s only walled city, indigenous deep heritage, spectacular landscape features, and awe-inspiring feats of engineering.

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Take a journey across Canada to visit our world-renowned natural and historic landmarks. With Canada's World Wonders, you'll visit Banff National Park, the first link in a vast network of natural parks and heritage sites that has grown to include Old Quebec, the Rideau Canal, and the Fortress of Louisbourg. UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta and the Gwaii Haanas totems in British Columbia, as well as such Indigenous cultural sites including the locations of ancient inuksuit, are also part of the journey.You'll travel through the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel, cruise the Trans-Canada Highway, explore the Grosse sle and Pier 21 immigration memorials, tour the graves of the failed Franklin Expedition, and visit the Vimy Ridge War Memorial, all with Ron Brown's engaging historical commentary.

Autor

Ron Brown is a geographer and heritage writer. He has authored more than twenty books, including Rails Over the Mountains and The Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. A past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada, he also conducts tours along Ontario’s back roads. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION Canada’s World Wonders: What are They?
ONE Canada on the World Stage
TWO They Came from Outer Space: The Charlevoix Meteor Crater
and Bisosphere Reserve
THREE Headless Valley and Other Grand Canyons
FOUR The Giant’s Rib: The Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve
FIVE Rocky Mountains High
SIX Jurassic Park North: Alberta’s World-Famous Dinosaur Graveyards
SEVEN Water, Water, Everywhere: Canada’s Greatest Lakes
EIGHT Group of Seven Country: Canada’s Thirty Thousand Islands Biosphere Reserve
NINE The Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve
TEN The “Amazon of the North”: Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest
ELEVEN Pingo! and Other Arctic Oddities
TWELVE Inuksuit: The Stone Men of the Arctic
THIRTEEN The Watchers: Canada’s West Coast Totems
FOURTEEN Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
FIFTEEN The Tide Is High: Fundy’s Giant Tides
SIXTEEN In the Footsteps of the Vikings: Following Newfoundland’s Viking Trail
SEVENTEEN Welcome to Canada: From Grosse-Île to Pier 21
EIGHTEEN: Behind Those Walls Old Quebec City World Heritage Site
NINETEEN Bluenose Country: Old Town Lunenburg
TWENTY Fortress of Louisbourg: North America’s Largest Historic Re-Creation
TWENTY-ONE Ho! For the Klondike
TWENTY-TWO Canada’s Elusive Northwest Passage
TWENTY-THREE The Rideau Canal: A Waterway from the Past
TWENTY-FOUR Bridging the Gap: Canada’s Engineering Marvels
TWENTY-FIVE Black Gold: Still Pumping After All These Years
TWENTY-SIX Riding the Rails: Canada’s World-Renowned Train Trips
TWENTY-SEVEN The Trans-Canada Highway: Canada’s Second “National Dream”
TWENTY-EIGHT La Gaspésie: Quebec’s Lighthouse Trail
TWENTY-NINE Cape Breton’s World-Famous Cabot Trail
THIRTY From Sea to Sky and Beyond
THIRTY-ONE Sasquatch and Other Wandering Wonders
THIRTY-TWO The Vimy Ridge Memorial: The Final Chapter
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
IMAGE CREDITS
INDEX

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2018
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Bridges • First Nations Heritage • Ghost Town • Grand Hotels • Historic • Klondike Gold Rush • Meteor Craters • Mountains • National Historic Sites • National parks • Northwest Passage • Old Quebec City • Parks Canada • rain forests • scenic drives • Scenic Railways • UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve • UNESCO World Heritage Site
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-4096-3 / 1459740963
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-4096-9 / 9781459740969