CAPE BONAVISTA separates Trinity and Bonavista bays on the eastern coast of Newfoundland. In 1842 it was decided to build a LIGHTHOUSE there as an aid to navigating the dangerous seas off the cape. The lighthouse operated for well over a century before it finally closed in 1962.
A contingent of Royal Engineers was brought from Britain to survey the route from Yale, at the head of navigation on the Fraser River, along extremely treacherous terrain to the administrative centre of the Cariboo.
Canada's deadliest road accident to date was a single-vehicle bus crash near Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive, in the Quebec municipality of Les Éboulements, on Thanksgiving Day, 13 October 1997.
SABLE ISLAND, a crescent-shaped sandbar 300 km east-southeast (160 nautical miles) of Halifax, is also infamous for its shipwrecks, and is known as "the Graveyard of the Atlantic," as its shifting sands have been the site of over 350 such incidents.
A timber slide is a water-filled chute or runway built to carry rafts of timber around rapids and falls.
The official time reference for Canada comes from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), but, with the exception of during wartime, the provinces and municipalities legislate the official time zone boundaries.
Unlike other mountainous countries such as Switzerland, and despite its size, Canada is not distinguished by well-known tunnels.
At 3,185 km (1,149 km of which lie in Canada), the Yukon River is the fifth-longest river in North America.