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 ReserveTHREE 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