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What would locals like others know about Canada? Presenting relevant links in a somewhat random fashion:
Headlines
Iniskim Umaapi: Is this Canada’s ‘Stonehenge’?
R. Murray Schafer, composer, writer and acoustic ecologist, has died at 88
Canada’s Residential Schools Were a Horror
Canada’s new travel rules are set to take off
What happened to Tim Hortons? The downfall of Canada’s brand
Four Corners
The four corners of Canadian political subdivisions hypothetically meet at a point near 60° N 102° W. These are the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Wikipedia
Trains
reservia.viarail.ca
seat61.com
Holidays
July 1 Canada Day #CanadaDay
Third Saturday in July Canada’s National Parks Day
Second Monday in October Thanksgiving
Recommended listening
cockburnproject.net
cbc.cag
cbc.ca – As it happens
Youtube
Reinventure
Canadian Tourism
Parks Canada
This is That
Tourism Portals
Canadian Tourism Commission
mediacentre.canada.travel – @ctccct
travelpress.com
Provinces and Territories
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
Saskachawan
Yukon Territory
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nunavut Territory
Northwest Territories
Elsewhere on the Web
National Infrastructure Assessment – Building Pathways to 2050: Moving Forward on the National Infrastructure Assessment (1.73 MB)
dooneyscafe.com – https://www.facebook.com/Dooneyscafecom-182466621768663/
Roots Music Canada – Facebook – @rootsmusicanada
Americas-Canada
Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy
Nature Canada
Crown of the Continent
Green Pages
http://www.naturecanada.ca
http://naturecanadablog.blogspot.com
http://www.alternativesjournal.ca/
Quebec-Labrador Foundation
Canada Land
Corporate Knights
Stanley Park on Flickr
www.flickr.com/groups/91218577@N00
Totem poles most-visited site in B.C. – “It took until 2008 for the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, who traditionally used the land that is now Stanley Park, to be physically represented at the site. That’s now been addressed with People Amongst the People, three gateways covered with designs in threes and multiples of three to represent the three aboriginal groups, created by Susan Point and her team of Musqueam carvers.”
Tourism Vancouver Island is one of six Regional Destination Management Organizations in British Columbia. Tourism Vancouver Island is contracted by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts to deliver marketing services specific to promoting the Vancouver Island Region. The contract with MTCA provides fees for service and funds to deliver the Tourism Partner Program, Trade Overseas and Media, Community Tourism Opportunities and Community Tourism Foundations programs.
Elsewhere
Americas-Canada
Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy
Nature Canada
Crown of the Continent
Green Pages
Indigenous
Full Circle
Haida Nation
Bingo
Canada – Donair – Massey – Poutine – Tim Hortons
Wikipedia
Canadian studies
Date and time notation in Canada
Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Public holidays in Canada
Trans-Canada Highway
Tommy Douglas
Planeta.com