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unusual facts about eastern Canada



Candy corn

During the Halloween season, blackberry cobbler candy corn can be found in eastern Canada.

Western Standard

The magazine was openly critical, in its reporting and opinion columns, of policies it believed favour Central Canada, such as the Canadian Wheat Board, what it argued is the disproportionate allocation of Parliamentary seats to Central and Eastern Canada, and official bilingualism.


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Ammosaurus

In the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia, scientists have unearthed prosauropods from the McCoy Brook Formation, which is about 200 to 197 million years old, from the Early Jurassic Hettangian stage.

Bill Good

His brother, John Good, also worked in radio and television, mostly in Toronto and eastern Canada before returning to Vancouver as part of the on air talent during the launch of a new TV station in the late 1970s.

Boletus miniato-olivaceus

Its distribution includes eastern Canada south to Florida, extending west to the Great Lakes region.

British Columbia Liberal Party

Pattullo was also a great advocate for British Columbia, and suggested such things as the annexation of Yukon by BC, and the construction of the Alaska Highway to reduce the power of eastern Canada over BC.

Daniel Ratthé

He later worked for six years for Sony Canada as the sales representative for Eastern Canada in the Media and Recording department and from 1990 to 1997 as the regional director of sales.

Debert Palaeo-Indian Site

E.S. Eaton would later sell his collection of specimens from multiple sites in eastern Canada to a collector from Kentville, Nova Scotia named W.A. Dennis.

Desai Williams

He now works as the speed coach for the Toronto Argonauts and is one of the most respected sprint coaches in eastern Canada.

Die Mannequin

They played the "Next Big Thing" Stage at Edgefest 1 in 2006, have toured across Eastern Canada several times on their own as well as opening for Buckcherry on their Canadian tour.

Diphasiastrum

Diphasiastrum digitatum Fan Clubmoss, Southern Running-pine, or Running Cedar (eastern Canada, northeastern United States)

First Choice Superchannel

The Movie Network, a pay television service serving eastern Canada (known as First Choice 1983–1984 and 1989–1993)

Harvest excursion

Thus in 1890 harvest excursions were organized by the Canadian Pacific Railway in which special trains would transport workers from Eastern Canada to the prairie centres.

Hillside Beach, Manitoba

During the fur trading expeditions of the Voyageurs and Coureur des bois the lagoon was part of a portage for traveling between the Winnipeg River and Lake Winnipeg en route from French eastern Canada to the Red River Valley, avoiding the long often choppy route around Elk Island.

Humboldt No. 370, Saskatchewan

The Humboldt Telegraph Station Site (constructed in 1876) built as part of the Dominion Telegraph Line, the station is on the original site for Humboldt, connecting Eastern Canada with Selkirk with Fort Livingstone, Clark's Crossing, Battleford, Edmonton and British Columbia.

Katsura Sunshine

In September 1994, his version of Aristophanes' The Clouds opened at the Poor Alex Theatre in Toronto, and, buoyed by positive reviews, ran for 15 months before embarking on a tour of central and eastern Canada.

L'Acadie blanc

Here the grape was given the name L'Acadie blanc after Acadia, the former New France colony that is now part of The Maritimes in eastern Canada.

Lasionycta phaea

It is an arctic species and has been collected from Baffin Island in north-eastern Canada to the central Brooks Range in northern Alaska and southward along the west coast of Hudson Bay to Arviat, Nunavut.

Mike Bossy

He started out doing promotional work for Humpty Dumpty in the late 1990s, a snack-food manufacturer based in eastern Canada.

Minto, New Brunswick

During the Second World War, the largest internment camp in eastern Canada was located in the hamlet of Ripples, 10 km west of the village; in addition to German POWs, its most notable prisoner was the anti-conscriptionist mayor of Montreal, Camillien Houde.

Salix herbacea

herbacea is adapted to survive in harsh environments, and has a wide distribution on both sides of the North Atlantic, in arctic northwest Asia, northern Europe, Greenland, and eastern Canada, and further south on high mountains, south to the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Rila in Europe, and the northern Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.

Viewers Choice

Originally Viewer's Choice was the monopoly provider of pay-per-view service in Eastern Canada, while Western International Communications was granted similar rights for its Home Theatre service in Western Canada, mirroring the regions held by Astral and WIC for pay TV service (The Movie Network and Superchannel, respectively).