West Edmonton Mall is located in Canada. It is in the Edmonton city of Alberta. It was opened on September 15th, 1981. The management of this mall was given to the Ghermezian family, but the two brothers were given this duty. West Edmonton mall properties were the owner of this mall. In this mall there is more than 800 stores and other services. The mall has three floors, but it is very big in size as compared to the other malls in Edmonton city. It has a big parking area and more than 20,000 vehicles are parked and every day almost 24,000 of people visit this mall.
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Capilano Suspension Bridge Park is most popular tourist attraction in Vancouver in Canada. It was built in 1889, and it stretches 450 feet across and 230 ft above Capilano River. It is a private place with an entry fee. And, it attracts around 800.000 visitors every year.
It was earlier made of hemp ropes with deck of cedar planks and nowadays replaced with wire cable bridge. In 1956 it was rebuilt. With different owners from time to time it was finally purchased by current owner Nancy Stibbard in 1983.In May 2004 new adventure was opened that is Treetops Adventures. This treetops consist of seven footbridges forming walkways up to 98 ft above the forest floor.
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Canadian Museum of Nature is in Ottawa, in the province Ontario in Canada. It is an old historian natural museum. In this museum the collection of all aspects of nature and human society, from gardening to gene splicing. This collection is a result of Geological Survey of Canada in 1856. It is all about the natural surroundings. The Museum is affiliated with the Virtual Museum Association of Canada.The building of this museum is known as Victoria Memorial Museum Building, that was built on farm land Appin Place , of the Scottish Merchant, William Stewart. The Canadian government purchase this land in 1905 and want to built a building that can complement the stone structure of the Parliament Building of Canada.Museum building with massive stone structure is an wonderful and excellent example of architecture of 20th century.
Algonquin Provincial Park is located in Central Ontario. It was established in 1893, and oldest park in Canada. It is of 7,654 sq Km, large protected area. This park contains 2400 lakes and 1200 km of rivers and streams.This park is a unique mixture of many forest types and a variety of environments. For wildlife research this park play important role.It was declared National Historic Site of Canada in 1992. It has several heritage values like , its role in development of park management, its role in inspiring famous artists, pioneering visitors, and historic structures such as cottages, camps, entrance gates, hotels, lodges, railway station, museum, etc.
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The CN Towers is located in Ontario, Canada. Its height is 1815.4 ft and built and completed in 1976 and that time it was world's tallest tower and world's tallest free-standing structure. But today it is no more the world tallest tower. It attracts more than three million international tourists annually.Full name for CN towers is Canadian National Towers. Canadian national was the name of the company that built this tower.Canadian National Railway wanted to build a radio and TV communication platform for Toronto, thus this is the idea behind the CN Towers. And, construction of the tower began on 1973 and completed by 1976. It was opened for the public on June 26th, 1976. And, its construction costs 63 million Canadian dollars. Canadian National Railway sold the tower to the private company in 1995.
Haida Gwaii is a series of islands in British Columbia. These islands are made up of ancient rainforest, scluded inlets, quaint villages and wide and long beaches. It was commonly known as Queen Cherlotte Islands. In 2009 the BC government changed the name of the island to Haida Gwaiiit consists of two main islands that are Graham Island and Moresby Island along with other 150 smaller islands. It has total land area of 10180 km square.Some of the islands are under federal legislation protection like Haida Heritage Site and Gwaii Haanas National Reserve and some of them are protected under provincial legislation like Naikoon Provincial park on Graham island. There is abundance of wildlife including largest species of black bear, stoat, black tailed deer and raccoon.
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The badlands are situated in southeastern Alberta. This region, from 19th century has been hotbed for fossils, one of the place where dinosaur remaining was found.As the name suggest the badland is mysterious with strange and stark rock formations and weird striped hills.Instead of these hills and rocks there is Dinosaur world with biggest dinosaur and Drumheller the Dinosaur Capital of the World. And , one of the little church in the town only six seated.
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