WHat MaKEs CaNada CooL?
By lucy iZon
W
hat makes Canada
cool? You can find
hundreds of answers to
that question through-
out its thirteen prov-
inces and territories. Here's a start:
BloominG VictoriA, BritisH
columBiA
In a lighthearted poke at many other
Canadians who are still shovelling the
white stuff, citizens of Victoria on mild
Vancouver Island tally their blossoms
each spring. Communities challenge each
other and school kids are avid counters.
The official total for March 1 to 7, 2011
was a whopping 260,457,579 blooms!
diGGinG For dinosAurs, AlBertA
Only in Canada can you see the world's
largest collection of complete dinosaur
skeletons. Seventy million years ago the
area around the town of Drumheller,
a 90-minute drive from Calgary, was a
tropical dinosaur paradise because of the
area's coastal sea. Today, it's one of the
greatest fossil graveyards in the world. At
the nearby Royal Tyrrell Museum 40 com-
plete dinosaur skeletons are on display
including Black Beauty, a Tyrannosaurus
rex considered one of the most significant
specimens of its kind.
polAr BeAr cApitAl oF tHe
World, mAnitoBA
In Churchill, Manitoba, the Polar Bear
Capital of the World, the great white mam-
mals migrate right by—and sometimes
right through—town. Because
Churchill
LORDS OF THE LAND • COURTESY OF ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM
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CANADA COOL
