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OverviewTake 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 Îsle 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ron BrownPublisher: Dundurn Group Ltd Imprint: Dundurn Group Ltd Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9781459740945ISBN 10: 1459740947 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 22 November 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION 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 INDEXReviewsBrown covers a lot of ground and presents an amazing amount of historical fact. - The Michigan Railfan, for Rails to the Atlantic It is a great bit of nostalgia to see the stations as they were in their glory days, over a century ago. - Shelf Life, for The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore Brown covers a lot of ground and presents an amazing amount of historical fact.--The Michigan Railfan, for Rails to the Atlantic It is a great bit of nostalgia to see the stations as they were in their glory days, over a century ago.--Shelf Life, for The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore Author InformationRon 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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