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In Peterborough we have the Peterborough lift locks which are the highest hydraulic boat lifts in the world, and pretty darn cool to see. We also have the Peterborough Petes OHL team (that I worked for) that has turned out a lot of excellent NHL hockey players, a few of which were good friends of mine from high school.
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Gotta mention the best fishing in the world too. In Ontario, we are blessed with the most lakes on the planet As long as you go north of Sudbury. The best fishing I ever had was around Lynn Lake Manitoba. I used to 'trawl' a wet fly behind a canoe late at night to catch trout. The lake was just teaming with them.
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Never tried fishing out that way before, but northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan get some monster pike, that's for sure.
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Great Northerns. The easist fish in the world to catch. Find one in the shallows, drop a hook in front of its snout. Bam! Looks impressive in a picture though.
One of the Girls in our camp caught a huge lake trout that summer. It measured almost 4' tip to tail.
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Chemong Lake is an amazing lake for fishing. I was fishing off the dock one day when I was a kid and Bob Izumi trolled by when I was a little kid, I even gave him some tips on the best fishing spots in the bay near my parents house and he actually took my advice .
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I guy I used to work with, actually his buddy, had part of his calf muscle torn off by a muskie when he was swimming at his cottage as a child. There was an incident last year in Georgian bay where a small girl was paddling in the water, and a muskie started circling her/chasing her. Thankfully, her father heard her screaming and grabbed her before the muskie attacked. I've seen a few large muskie where I go fishing for smallies, you see them following some of the loons around esp the chicks. Muskie get bigger than pike but, from my experience anyway, I find pike to be more aggressive(not necessarily more dangerous).
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I'll tell you one thing Canada is not great for: those frickin' geese!
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Those lift locks are pretty cool! I remember reading about the physics of lift locks in the past. They only need to engineer them to lift the weight of the water when full to the brim. Because any boat displaces its weight in water, the total weight of the system never changes.
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Hate the geese, make a mess all over beaches and waterfronts, kind of ruins the experience.
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What makes Canada so great, a few people come to mind (you may know some of them, and be supprised by others).
A.G. Bell Howie Mandle Micheal J. Fox Donald Southerland Dan Aykroyd Matthew Perry Alan Thicke Alex Trebek Keanu Reeves Paul Shaffer Martin Short Jason Priestly Leslie Nielsen Rick Moranis (AKA Dark Helmet) Mike Meyers Lorne Greene (Bonanza, Battle Star Galatica) Monty Hall Guy Lombardo (from my home town, London, Ontario) Rachel McAdams (nuff said) John Candy Joni Mitchell Jim Carrey Celine Dion (It's true, you guys in the US can keep her, it's OK, we don't mind) Shania Twain (unlike Celine, we don't want to give Shania away) James Cameron (Titanic, True Lies, Aliens, etc) Peter Jennings(ABC) John Roberts (CNN) Kim Kattrall Bryan Adams Barenaked ladies (only a Canadain could come up with that name). Rush Triumph The Guess Who Loverboy Paul Anka Micheal Buble William Shattner Christopher Plumber Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve (F1 drivers) Neil Young
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Wayne Gretzky
People like these make me proud to where the MapleLeaf on my jacket.
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