Content tagged with “canada”

There are 4 item(s) tagged with “canada” on this site.

Other tags used by these items: air-travel, geography, history, treasure, fiction

Canadian Airport Codes
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
June 3, 2023
Words
88

“It has to do with the transition from two-letter to three-letter codes. Originally, airport codes were just two-letters. In Canada, they decided to use the same code as the Morse code for the corresponding Canadian railway station. Eventually, it became important to know if an airport had a weather…”

Northwest Angle
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
August 21, 2024
Words
237

“This is a geographic ‘notch’ of Minnesota that pokes up into Canada. It contains the northernmost point in the contiguous United States. What’s unique about this place is that it mostly consists of the Lake of the Words in the southern portion, which cross the entire span, from east to west. At the…”

What’s Bred in the Bone
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 13, 2024
Words
211

“Robertson Davies is apparently a very famous Canadian novelist. The fact that I didn’t know this is not surprising, I guess. I was visiting a friend in Ottawa, and we went to a local bookstore. He handed me this and told me to buy it. He said it was required reading for most Canadian high school…”