Canadian Rocky Mountains

A few weeks ago, Josseline (a Bridge Base Online Friend)

sent me...Magnifique, les Rocheuses.

This was a spectacular video of our Canadian Rockies

with her accompanying comment:

I know somebody, living in Canada

who'll be very glad to receive this video.

To her, I responded after viewing the numerous photos:

                                                          How Beautiful our Rockies!

                                                          In viewing these scenes

                                                          tears come to my eyes!

                                                          How fortunate I've been

                                                          travelling all National Parks

                                                          as this video depicts!

                                                         Come!  Travel with me

                                                         to the heights of the mountains,

                                                         to the depths of the valleys,

                                                         to rich evergreen forests,

                                                         to lakes' aqua waters and rivers,

                                                         to the tumbling cascades,

                                                         to Kootenay's hot springs

                                                         and the Columbia Icefields.

                                                        View the mountain goats ever so high,

                                                        the deer , the elk and the moose;

                                                        View the bees, the butterflies and alpine flowers

                                                        throughout the Rocky Mountains.

                                                        Yes, there are the Alps...which I have toured;

                                                         the Andes, over which I have flown;

                                                         the American Rockies through which I've driven.

                                                         But...This is My Canada

                                                         for all to enjoy!

                                                        Our Rocky Mountains

                                                        ... magnificent, mighty and mystical.

                                                        They compel us to lovingly appreciate

                                                        their unparalleled magical beauty!

We are a wide-spread country...ten Provinces and three Territories.

Our lands encompass mountain ranges, valleys and canyons, gently

rolling hills and the golden prairies; we have lakes and rivers, bays

and inlets and country streams; we have tumbling cascades and

well-renowned Niagara Falls. Three oceans border us...west, north

and east:  the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic.

The Laurentian Mountains, north of Montreal in Quebec

offer ski hills galore...you may  have heard of Mont Tremblant.

I've schussed down many of these slopes on winter vacations

...superbly exhilarating, fine cuisine and freshly fallen snow.

High on my list are Mont Tremblant, Gray Rocks, Mont Ste. Anne.

From west coast to east and north to our Territories, you'll be

surprised...as I was...at the following discovered information.

          British Columbia and Alberta: the Rockies are comprised

          of over 100 mountain ranges.

          Saskatchewan has a few low mountain peaks.

          Manitoba: 2 ranges

          Ontario: 4 ranges (north of Thunder Bay and Ottawa Valley)

          Quebec:  11 ranges including the Laurentians and the Torngat

          New Brunswick: 11 including the Appalachian Mountains

          which extend northward from US and Mount Christmas.

          Nova Scotia: 3 ranges including Cape Breton Highlands

          a spectacular scenic route along the Gulf of St. Lawrence

          and the Atlantic Ocean.

          Newfoundland and Labrador: 10 ranges including the Torngat

          Mountains.
          Prince Edward Island (in the Gulf of St. Lawrence)...none

          Yukon Territory has 19 mountain ranges.

          Northwest Territories have 9.

          Nuvavut 5...2 of which are on Ellesmere Island.

Planet Earth is the only home we have

and we would be wise to take good care of it.

(Bill Sherk...retired High School Teacher

Leamington, Ontario)

Merle Baird-Kerr … written December 4, 2012

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