From Big to Little by Joan Donaldson-Yarmey
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https://books2read.com/Romancing-the-Klondike
https://books2read.com/Rushing-the-Klondike
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I am a Canadian writer and all my mystery, historical, romance,
and young adult novels are set in Canada. Canada is the second largest country
in the world and home to a wide variety of rocks, plants, and animals. Here are
some of the oldest, largest, and smallest examples.
Canada’s largest tree is a western red cedar called the Cheewhat
Giant. It is in the Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island. It is 56m
(182 ft) tall and has trunk diameter of 6m (20ft). The Cheewhat Giant is also
the biggest western red cedar in the world.
Canada’s tallest tree is a Sitka spruce in the Carmanah Valley on
Vancouver Island. It stands 95m (312ft) high.
Canada has the oldest exposed bedrock on earth and it is the
oldest section of our planet’s early crust. It is known as the Nuvvuagittuq
greenstone belt and is in Northern Quebec on the eastern shore of the Hudson
Bay. It has been analyzed by geologists and they have determined that the rock
samples range from 3.8 to 4.28 billion years old. The earth its 4.6 billion
years old and there are very few remnants of its early crust, since most of it
has been rotated back into the Earth’s interior by the movement of the large
tectonic plates over billions of years.
The Banff Springs Snail
isn’t the smallest snail in the world; that is held by the Augustopila psammion species
found in a cave in Vietnam and four of them fit inside a grain of sand.
However, the only place in the world where the Banff Springs Snail is found is
in a handful of thermal springs in Banff National Park in the province of
Alberta. The snail was first discovered in 1926 and
the largest of the snails are about the size of a small fingernail.
The world’s largest colony of Lesser Snow Geese can be found on
the Great Plain of the Koukdjuak on the western side of Baffin Island in the
territory of Nunavut, Canada. Beginning in late May as many as two million snow
geese migrate there to breed and when the young hatch, they and their parents
go further inland to feed. By early September the young are large enough to
head south for the winter.