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View of the displays within the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon. Here on display are three mummified animals found in recent years w/in the permafrost mining regions around Dawson City. To the left is a mummified caribou carcass found in July 2016 in a volcanic ash bed at a gold mine at Paradise Hill. Dated at 80,000 years old, it is thought to be the oldest known mummified soft-tissue in the world to date. In the center display is a mummified gray wolf pup named Zhùr at eight weeks old found at Last Chance Creek in July 2016, more than 50,000 years old. The right case contains a mummified horse hide found at Last Chance Creek in 1993 by placer miners Lee Olynyk & Ron Toewes, dated at 26,000 years before present.
Other animal specimens including a 30,000 year-old curled-up arctic ground squirrel mummy found in 2018 was on display in the main room.
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The capital of Canada is Ottawa, in the province of Ontario. There are offically ten provinces and three territories in Canada, which is the second largest country in the world in terms of land area.While politically and legally an independant nation, the titular head of state for Canada is still Queen Elizabeth.On the east end of Canada, you have Montreal as the bastion of activity. Montreal is famous for two things, VICE magazine and the Montreal Jazz Festival. One is the bible of hipster life (disposable, of course) and the other is a world-famous event that draws more than two million people every summer. Quebec is a French speaking province that has almost seceded from Canada on several occasions, by the way..When you think of Canada, you think of . . . snow, right?But not on the West Coast. In Vancouver, it rains. And you'll find more of the population speaking Mandarin than French (but also Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Farsi, German, and much more).Like the other big cities in Canada, Vancouver is vividly multicultural and Vancouverites are very, very serious about their coffee.Your standard Vancouverite can be found attired head-to-toe in Lululemon gear, mainlining Cafe Artigiano Americanos (spot the irony for ten points).But here's a Vancouver secret only the coolest kids know: the best sandwiches in the city aren't found downtown. Actually, they're hidden in Edgemont Village at the foot of Grouse Mountain on the North Shore."It's actually worth coming to Canada for these sandwiches alone." -- Michelle Superle, VancouverText by Steve Smith.
