Canada: Early Canadian History

 

Canada, though often overshadowed by its famous neighbor to the south, has a rich and diverse history. Its role as an international peacekeeper is renowned and its culture is seen as a mosaic that accepts different peoples and world traditions to complement its own heritage. The establishment of territory by France, and then by England, instituted another cultural dynamic that is still being worked out to this day.
The modern history of Canada began in 1867 with the union of the British Provinces into a new confederation. For the most part, Canada has developed into its present form through a mostly peaceful constitutional and political process. Canadians are proud of their country's identity and contributions to the world. The Web is a good place to start researching these topics and discovering new things about the US’s great neighbor to the north.
Those interested in this vast and varied country will find an assortment of resources on the World Wide Web. Canadians are very proud of their heritage and are eager for the rest of the world to start paying attention to their accomplishments. Online you will find any number of specialty sites, museum links, archives and tourism guides. Many Canadian sites will let you choose between French and English versions.

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Canada, Home To Large Roadside Attractions

 

 

People who travel frequently throughout Canada are probably used to seeing interesting and odd items next to the road. Many of them are garish, many are perplexing, and many are amusing, but all of them have one thing in common—they’re all pretty big. And they’re scattered all across the country. Canadian Ed Solonyka has compiled an exhaustive collection of photographs of such attractions, and they’re all on display at his website, where they are indexed alphabetically so they’re easy to locate.
Solonyka’s website has garnered numerous awards, including The Great White North’s Page of Excellence, The Critical Mass Award, The Canuck’s Choice World Class Site Award, the Canada Travel Webring Award for Excellent Canadian Content, the Cool Canuck Site Award, the Purely Canadian Website Award, and the Canadian Advantage Web Award. The site has also been listed as a Yahoo Pick of the Week website, as well as being AutoGuide.net's Featured Site of the Week

 

The site is extremely visitor-friendly and unusually easy to navigate. Not only are the photos alphabetically indexed, there’s also a page that displays a map of Canada where you can simply click on a province or territory to display a page packed with thumbnail photos of the attractions in that province. Click on a thumbnail to see the larger image. If you prefer to search by category rather than location, you can go to the page that groups attractions by type, such as fruit, furniture, sports, reptiles, food, animals, clocks, transportation, intergalactic, snowmen, and insects, which are just a few of the many categories listed. The site also contains a huge separate collection of photos of air force and civilian aircraft found on pedestals across Canada, as well as photos of roadside attractions along the Trans-Canada Highway.
This website is the only place where you can go to see pictures of Ms. Claybelt the Cow, The World's Largest Dinosaur, Quilly Willy the Porcupine, the World's Largest Coke Can, the World's Largest Sundial, the World’s Largest Lobster, the Biggest Piggy Bank in the World, the Sign Post Forest, the World’s Largest Pirogue, the World's Largest Adirondack Chair, and the World’s Largest Bee—and that’s only the tip of the iceberg! If you want to take a virtual trip through Canada’s large roadside attractions without leaving the comfort of your own home, Ed Solonyka’s fantastic website is just a click away.

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