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Sleeping Giant (Ontario)
The Sleeping Giant is a series of mesas formed by the erosion of thick, diabase sills on Sibley Peninsula that resembles a giant lying on its back when viewed from the west to north-northwest section of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. As one moves southward along the shoreline toward Sawyer's Bay, the Sleeping Giant starts to separate into its various sections. Most distinctly in the view from the cliffs at Sawyer's Bay, the Giant appears to have an Adam's Apple. The formation is part of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. Its dramatic steep cliffs are among the highest in Ontario (250 m). The southernmost point is known as Thunder Cape, depicted by many early Canadian artists such as William Armstrong. One Ojibway legend identifies the giant as Nanabijou, who was turned to stone when the secret location of a rich silver mine now known as Silver Islet was disclosed to white men. Sleeping Giant is the namesake and general setting of the 2015 Canadian film ''Sleeping Giant''. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario and the second most populous (after Greater Sudbury) municipality in Northern Ontario. Its population is 108,843 according to the 2021 Canadian census. Located on Lake Superior, the census metropolitan area of Thunder Bay has a population of 123,258 and consists of the city of Thunder Bay, the municipalities of Oliver Paipoonge and Neebing, Ontario, Neebing, the townships of Shuniah, Conmee, Ontario, Conmee, O'Connor, Ontario, O'Connor, and Gillies, Ontario, Gillies, and the Fort William First Nation. European settlement in the region began in the late 17th century with a French fur trading outpost on the banks of the Kaministiquia River., City of Thunder Bay. Retrieved 5 June 2007. It grew into an important transportation hub with its port forming an important link in the shipping of grain and other products from western Canada, through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Islet, Ontario
Silver Islet refers to both a small rocky island and a small community located near the tip of the Sibley Peninsula in northwestern Ontario, Canada. A rich vein of nearly pure silver was discovered on this small island in 1868 by the Montreal Mining Company. At that time, the island was approximately in size and only above the waters of Lake Superior. In 1870, the site was developed by Alexander H. Sibley's Silver Islet Mining Company which built wooden breakwaters around the island to hold back the lake's waves and increased the island's area substantially with crushed rock. The islet was expanded to over 10 times its original size and a small mining town was built up on the shore nearby. After most of the purest ore from the original site had been removed, a second vein was discovered in 1878. By 1883, most of the highest quality silver had been extracted and the price of silver had declined. The final straw came when a shipment of coal did not arrive before the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sills (geology)
Sill may refer to: * Sill (dock), a weir at the low water mark retaining water within a dock * Sill (geology), a subhorizontal sheet intrusion of molten or solidified magma * Sill (geostatistics) * Sill (river), a river in Austria * Sill plate, a construction element ** Window sill, a more specific construction element than above ** Automotive sill, also known as a rocker panel; see Glossary of automotive design#R * Fort Sill, a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma * Mount Sill, a California mountain * Aquatic sill, a shoal near the mouth of a fjord, remnant of an extinct glacier's terminal moraine People Sill * Anna Peck Sill (1816-1889), American educator * Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887), American poet and educator * * George G. Sill (1829–1907), American politician from Connecticut * Joel Sill (born 1946), American music producer * John M. B. Sill (1831–1901), American diplomat * Joshua W. Sill (1831–1862), American Civil War brigadier general * Judee Sill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anishinaabe Mythology
The Anishinaabe (alternatively spelled Anishinabe, Anicinape, Nishnaabe, Neshnabé, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek, Aanishnaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawatomi, Mississaugas, Nipissing, and Algonquin peoples. The Anishinaabe speak , or Anishinaabe languages that belong to the Algonquian language family. At the time of first contact with Europeans they lived in the Northeast Woodlands and the Subarctic, and some have since spread to the Great Plains. The word means . Another definition is , meaning those who are on the right road or path given to them by the Creator Gitche Manitou, or Great Spirit. Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe historian, linguist, and writer, wrote that the term's literal translation is or . The Anishinaabe believe that their people were created by divine breath. The word is often mistakenly considered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of Thunder Bay District
A landform is a land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. They may be natural or may be anthropogenic (caused or influenced by human activity). Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great oceanic basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, structure stratum, stratification, rock exposure, and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, cliffs, hills, mounds, peninsulas, ridges, rivers, valleys, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Susitna
Mount Susitna, also known as ''Sleeping Lady'', ( Dena'ina: ''Dghelishla'') is a mountain in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the west bank of the lower Susitna River, about northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The mountain is a prominent landmark in the Anchorage area and can be seen across the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet from most of the city, especially at higher elevations. Etymology and Alaska Native names The mountain's Dena'ina name is ''Dghelishla'', meaning "Little Mountain"; in English it was simply named for the Susitna River which means ''Sandy River''. "Dinglishna" in Alaska is a similar word which means "Little Ridge that Extends". Legends Mount Susitna is often called Sleeping Lady for its resemblance to a recumbent woman. The mountain is associated with a local legend in which a woman belonging to a race of giants vows to sleep until her beloved comes back from battle. The first known printing of the local legend was written by Nancy Lesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy MacGregor
Roy MacGregor (born 1948) is a Canadian author of fiction and non-fiction. Career Roy MacGregor was born in Whitney, Ontario in 1948 and grew up in Huntsville, Ontario. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Laurentian University and a graduate diploma in journalism from the University of Western Ontario in 1972. His work tends to focus on Canadian topics; Shelagh Rogers has dubbed him the "heir to Peter Gzowski". He has a longstanding interest in the life of Tom Thomson, and has written both a novel and a biography exploring the artist's life and mysterious death. MacGregor has also been called "the Wayne Gretzky of hockey writing" and the Washington Post once declared him to be "the closest thing there is to a poet laureate of Canadian hockey." In 2012, he was awarded the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association and named the media honouree to the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2015 he was named to the Ontario Sports Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Jamieson
Roberta L. Jamieson, OC is a Canadian lawyer and First Nations activist. She was the first Indigenous woman ever to earn a law degree in Canada, the first non-Parliamentarian to be appointed an ''ex officio'' member of a House of Commons committee, and the first woman appointed as Ontario Ombudsman. History Jamieson is a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River. She was educated at McGill University and the University of Western Ontario, graduating with a law degree in 1976. She worked primarily as a policy advisor in government bodies, including as a commissioner on the Indian Commission of Ontario from 1985 to 1989 and as Ontario's provincial ombudsman from 1989 to 1999. Jamieson was the first non-Parliamentarian to be appointed an ''ex officio'' member of a special House of Commons committee on Indian self-government. Jamieson has also been recognized for her work in developing and promoting alternative dispute resolution methods. She received the Goodman Fellowship fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ra McGuire
Ramon Wayne "Ra" McGuire (pronounced "Ray"; born June 13, 1950) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and founding and longtime member of the rock band Trooper. McGuire performed with Trooper and musical partner Brian Smith from 1975 until their retirement November 2021. In 2023, McGuire was inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Canada's walk of Fame. As a songwriter, McGuire has received “The National Achievement Award” from SOCAN and been nominated four times for the 'Composer of the Year' Juno Award. As the singer and songwriter for Trooper, his recordings have been nominated twice for 'Album of the Year' and once for 'Best Selling Album of the Year'. Trooper was nominated three times for ‘Group of the Year’, and won the Juno Award for ‘Group of the Year' in 1980. McGuire also received a BC CARAS (JUNO) Award for Best Male Vocalist. Biography McGuire was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. McGuire and his wife, Debbie, spearheaded the formatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the Canada–United States border, border between the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York (state), New York in the United States. The largest of the three is Horseshoe Falls, which straddles the Canada–United States border, international border of the two countries. It is also known as the Canadian Falls. The smaller American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls (Niagara Falls), Bridal Veil Falls lie within the United States. Bridal Veil Falls is separated from Horseshoe Falls by Goat Island (New York), Goat Island and from American Falls by Luna Island, with both islands situated in New York. Formed by the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario before flowing out to the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence River, the combined falls have the List of waterfalls by flow rate, highest flow rate of any waterfall in North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Of Fundy
The Bay of Fundy () is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. It is an arm of the Gulf of Maine. Its tidal range is the highest in the world. The bay was named ''Bakudabakek'' by the indigenous Mi'kmaq and Passamaquoddy groups, meaning "open way". The Wolastoqiyik peoples named it ''Wekwabegituk'', meaning "waves at the head of the bay". The name "Fundy" has been speculated to have derived from the French word ("split") or ("head of the bay"). Some individuals have disputed this, including William Francis Ganong, who suggested that the name likely derived from Portuguese origin instead, specifically regarding João Álvares Fagundes, who may have referred to the bay as ("Great Bay") and nearby waters as ("deep river"). Hydrology Tides The tidal range in the Bay of Fundy is about ; the average tidal range worldwide is only . Some tides are higher than others, depending on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Wonders Of Canada
The Seven Wonders of Canada was a 2007 competition sponsored by CBC Television's ''CBC News: The National, The National'' and CBC Radio One's ''Sounds Like Canada''. They sought to determine Canada's "seven wonders" by receiving nominations from viewers, and then from on-line voting of the short list. After the vote, a panel of judges, Ra McGuire, Roy MacGregor and Roberta L. Jamieson, picked the winners based on geographic and poetic criteria. Their seven picks were revealed on ''CBC News: The National, The National'' on June 7, 2007, making the official Seven Wonders of Canada, the Canoe, the Igloo, Niagara Falls, Old Quebec City, Pier 21 Halifax, Prairie Skies, and the Rockies. CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge commented on the top winner, “it’s hard to imagine Canada being Canada without the canoe. Explorers, missionaries, fur traders and First Nations—they’re all linked by this subtle and simple craft. To many, the quintessential Canadian experience begins by picking up a padd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
