Canada's World Wonders

Ron 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.

INTRODUCTION 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
INDEX