Ron Brown 
Canada’s World Wonders 

Take 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.

Tabella dei contenuti

• 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

Circa l’autore

Ron Brown, a geographer and travel writer, has authored more than twenty books, including Canada&#8217s World Wonders and The Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. A past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada and a current member of the East York Historical Society, he gives lectures and conducts tours along Ontario’s back roads. Ron lives in Toronto.

Ron Brown, a geographer and travel writer, has authored more than twenty books, including Canada’s World Wonders and The Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. A past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada and a current member of the East York Historical Society, he gives lectures and conducts tours along Ontario’s back roads. Ron lives in Toronto.