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Water Power is King in Quebec

The increased need for energy is a direct result of our fast growing modern lifestyle. Quebec Power Project at Radisson Before the use of fossil fuels to produce energy, man used the force of moving water. At first the moving water turned wheels that turned other things like saws, and […]

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The Frontenac Axis of Eastern Ontario

Random acts of geology create some of our most scenic landscapes. In Eastern Ontario there are over 1000 islands in the midst of the St. Lawrence River. Typical Pond in the Frontenac Axis Thousands of tourists flock there for a boat ride through this scenic region, and hundreds of people […]

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Zoo Sauvage de St. Felician

When was the last time you roamed in the woods hoping you could see some wild life but didn’t? Now is the time to place yourself among about 1000 wild animals on their own stomping grounds? Contented black bear Although many of us have never heard about it, the Zoo […]

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Taming the Beast from the Outhouse

Taming the Beast from the Outhouse © James Stoness I’m sure a few of you old timers can relate to this story. When I was a wee lad, if I had to go, I walked across the yard to a little building by the back fence. It was a building […]

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Rails to the Klondike

In the summer of 1896 a prospector named Skookum Jim discovered gold in Rabbit Creek which runs into the Klondike River, in Canada’s Yukon. The claims were registered at a camp called Forty Mile, because it was forty miles from Dawson on the Yukon River. Tour Train at Skagway Miners […]

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