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The Niagara Peninsula’s perfect convergence of good growing conditions for grapes and consistent freezing make it the world”s most productive ice wine region. Inniskillin Winery Niagara-on-the-Lake was pioneer in Canadian ice wine, winning the...
The Staccatos were a moderate success in the Ontario area in he early 1960s, but as the hippie era bloomed, that name proved to be out of touch. Bands like Big Brother and the...
Canada’s tallest waterfalls are in British Columbia, but the province is so used to them that some of the largest don’t even have names. Of those that have been named and measured, Canada’s tallest...
When the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949, just four years after the end of World War II, it began to seem like the next World War, this time a nuclear...
IN 1962 one of Canada’s largest crops transformed when Edward Asselbergs, a Canadian Ministry of a Canadian Ministry of Agriculture employee, turned the familiar potato into instant mashed potato flakes. He developed the dried...
The Collision On the morning of December 6, sometime before 9:00 a.m., the Imo and the Mont-Blanc both entered the Narrows: the Imo going east toward the open sea, and the Mont-Blanc going west...
This Montreal indie band’s Win Butler explained that as a a child he heard a story that haunted him: It was an account of an arcade burning down with kids trapped inside. “It’s probably...
Iron Mountain Incorporated is one of the world’s leading data management companies, and its most famous high-security storage facility lies more than 200 feet underground in the former mining town of Boyers, Pennsylvania. Among...
Dyes have been used for thousands of years. Cave paintings from the Upper Palaeolithic period (35,000 to 10,000 years ago) show that people already knew how to reproduce colours. But whereas cave artists used...
